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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Owingses decided to call their new house "Wild Bird" because "we have the feeling of soaring in mid-air-airplanes often pass below the house, and red-tailed hawks are our constant visitors." Through binoculars they have seen mountain climbers tumble to the beach below, once had to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOUSE IN BIG SUR | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Mosaic Carpets. To contrast with nature's grandeur, the Owingses tried to make the interior snug and warm. The only floor coverings are the pebble floor-mosaics designed by Mrs. Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOUSE IN BIG SUR | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

As far as the Owingses are concerned, their home suits them to a T. Says Owings: "This is a onetime house for the rest of the time we expect to be here on earth."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOUSE IN BIG SUR | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Each morning around 9:30, Roy Allison Roberts, his teeth clenching one of the dozen Corona-Coronas he smokes daily in defiance of his age (72) and his doctor (who allows him six), climbs out of his car before one of the homeliest buildings in Kansas City, Mo. The building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good for Kansas City | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

In some ways, the Star is a paper of paradoxes. Many city-room staffers have to walk to a central table to make a phone call, but simply by flipping a switch on his desk, the assignment editor can put himself in instant radio touch with staffers manning the fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good for Kansas City | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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