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Word: talked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Suzy and Pierre were relieved that the pretense was gone. But Hollywood was dumbstruck. Now, a lot of folks wondered whether it really would be right for the happy married couple to continue sharing the same apartment. People talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Bachelor Girl | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...believe Adlai Stevenson's statements that he would not run again for President, consequently kept Stevenson's name off the Gallup poll of 1960 Democratic presidential possibilities. It would, the pollsters said, only distort the count for the real candidates. But Gallup heard so much Stevenson talk that he put him back on, last week put out a report that showed Stevenson at the head of the pack with 23%. The contenders, and their changes in standing since last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Leading the Pack | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Construction showed a $400 million gain to $4.1 billion in May-and gave the Northwest's troublesome lumber industry real hope for better business. Though output is down 10% from last year, lumbermen talk encouragingly of a second-half push that might carry the industry 2% or 3% ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Reason for Optimism | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...million yearly, owns a topflight racing stable (Maine Chance). The carefully preserved beauty queens are the best ads for their own products: Rubinstein is in her 80s, Arden in her 70s-and their exact ages are as jealously guarded as their cosmetic secrets. Says an aide: "We never talk to Miss Arden about the passage of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...journalism. Infantrymen have changed little: a Greek footslogger grumbles that "I'm tired out packing up and marching and doubling and carrying arms and falling in and keeping guard and fighting. I want a little rest." Xenophon describes a rough-and-ready means of getting stubborn prisoners to talk: kill one in front of the other to loosen the survivor's tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battle Odyssey | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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