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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony tip to Columnist Drew Pearson that the hooker was in Section 102. Pearson dutifully printed the news, and the Southerners who rushed to read that section soon relaxed-no civil-rights stuff there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Great Labor Debate | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Military Sea Transportation Service to dump waste material-imbedded in concrete and steel containers-at selected points in both the Pacific and the Atlantic. The oceans are used only for low-energy leftovers-radioactive rubber gloves, mops, rags, discarded lab equipment-but over the years an impressive amount of stuff has been dumped. MSTS joins the Coast Guard, other Navy units and seven private firms in the atomic garbage business; the others have already dumped some 30,000 steel and concrete packages into the Atlantic, and 24,000 into the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Garbage Disposal | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

After all, explained Gary, it is not Bing before whom they want to strut their stuff. "There has been so much bad written about us that we all wanted to show people that we are not just four lazy fops hanging around Hollywood with too much money. We had to prove that at least some of us have talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: My Father & I | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-The first trip under the ice at the North Pole by The Nautilus is still the stuff of high adventure, even in a rerun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 24, 1959 | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Felix was made of sterner stuff. When he went to work as a restaurant bus boy in Houston, he started with the word "catchup," painfully taught himself to speak, read and write excellent English. Today, at 54, Felix Tijerina owns a chain of thriving Texas restaurants, is president of the nationwide League of United Latin American Citizens. But civic-minded Restaurateur Tijerina has not stopped there. In his spare time, busy as a platoon of pedagogues, he has launched an assault on the language barrier. By last week Tijerina had worked out a method that may spread among Spanish-speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A 400-Word Start | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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