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Word: sundays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy island"-its climate fine, its people content, its crime rate low, and even its clocks willing to jog along a full six hours behind those in the rest of East Africa. But that was before democracy raised its enlightened head. Last week as Zanzibaris, dressed in their Sunday best, trooped to the polls to cast the first votes of their lives, the world caught up with Zanzibar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZANZIBAR: The Happy Island | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...Sunday afternoon, the day when TV networks pay commerce's homage to culture, CBS casually dropped a small token into its schedule: a show that offered nothing to the eye but four people talking, nothing to the ear but talk of how to use the English language properly. To the surprise of network skeptics, The Last Word proved the sleeper of 1957, demonstrated that syntax can be made almost as fascinating as sin. Rounding out its sixth month this week, the lively sleeper (now on at 6 p.m., E.D.T.) is still piling up a whopping 1,000 letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Wide-Awake Sleeper | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Three services were held at the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas last Sunday (two in the morning and one at night); there was a giant picnic for 2,000 church members at noon, and at 3 p.m. there was a going-away party with an air-conditioned Buick as the main gift. Object of all the attention: Broadway Church's personable pastor-Matt Norvel Young, 41, an expansive man in an expanding church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nondenomination | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Orchestra tickets for the Sunday afternoon performance, including a round trip bus fare to Stratford, will cost $6.50. They can be bought in Mrs. Clouser's office in Greys Hall and must be purchased before next Monday noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repeat Bus Service | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

...prison custom not to send on the condemned man's last letters, but to bury them with him. As they are dropped in the grave, the prisoners grab for them. "Give us them bloody letters," says one. "They're worth money to one of the Sunday papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jig on the Trap | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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