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Word: sure (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within an area of four square miles of London," said a nightclub owner after glittering thousands had danced, drunk and cheered till dawn. The staid London Stock Exchange erupted in an exuberant burst of buying as morning-coated brokers shouted bids at lung-top, stood on chairs to make sure their bids were recognized; industrial shares soared 16.1 points for the biggest rise ever recorded in a single day. The box score of Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Art of the Practical | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Mexico's President came mostly to repay friendly visits by Ike, brother Milton, and Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and the U.S. made sure that he would hit all the high spots. On the agenda: a White House state dinner, a day with Ike at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, a helicopter's-eye look at Gettysburg, an Ike-guided visit to the Eisenhower farm, dinner with Ike at the White House correspondents' dinner celebrating Eisenhower's 69th birthday. From Washington, López Mateos planned to go to Chicago, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Bienvenido | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...apparently gone dead, and the other one (183 mc) was working erratically. The signal stopped entirely for about four minutes. This break might have indicated the moment when Lunik III briefly dipped behind the edge of the moon, but the Jodrell Bank scientists could not be sure whether it passed ahead, behind or under the moon. Since the far side of the moon was mostly in sunlight, Lunik may have photographed it, and other instruments may have observed it in other ways. But the Russians did not say whether man's first chance to observe the far side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First to the Far Side | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...kicking it under the carpet." At that time (spring 1957) little more than a simple denial from Producer Enright was enough for NBC to announce that its own "investigation had proved Stempel's charges to be utterly baseless and untrue." But P.R. Man Franklin was not so sure of the truthfulness of his client. As he testified: "The client rarely tells you the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Big Fix | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Again there was a dead silence, and Dudley could feel the sweat on his brow increase. His left hand became clammy, and soon her right became clammy. It was this that made Dud sure that they were meant for each other. Still he was stuck for words...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Punch on the Rocks | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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