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Word: thees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh and buoyant in a blue print dress and matching turban, Mamie Eisenhower took a few practice swings, baseball-style, then smashed a champagne bottle frothily on the looming bow, pronouncing the traditional formula: "I christen thee N.S. [for nuclear ship] Savannah.* Godspeed." After a second's hesitation, America's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel slid easily down the ways at Camden, N.J. and into the waters of the Delaware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Symbol at Sea | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried to take pictures, Teitelbaum covered himself, mumbled, "Thou shalt not make unto thee graven images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: King of All Rabbis | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...poetry and prose to spinning on thousands of U.S. phonographs at 33-1/3 r.p.m. Sampling the newer releases, the auditory reader can pass his evenings with anything from a spoken history of baseball (Columbia) to Physicist Edward Teller's richly Magyar dissertation for Spoken Arts on the "thee-ory of relateevity" ("it weel sound to you crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words in Rotation | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...shall no kill.' they say, and then one of them walks comfortingly to the death chamber with Caryl Chessman.''). Some of the material springs from his own checkered life (the son of divorced parents, he ran away from home at twelve). His political routines recall Of Thee I Sing with some venom added, as when Ike says to Sherman Adams: "All right, Sherm, you can level with me, baby. What else did you take? . . . Delaware? How could you do a thing like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...Take Thee (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A "news special" about love and marriage in the U.S. today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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