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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week, and radio stations dutifully carried the Weather Bureau's heavy-thunderstorm warnings. The weather was still foul when the city went to bed. Two hours-past midnight, it worsened destructively. Without warning, a tornado, bad weather's traveling explosion, roared down upon the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Five Minutes of Havoc | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

This mining town I live in is a sad and lonely place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Never a Time So Bad | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Tell the old man you're sick of staying at home. Get out on the town. Enjoy music, live music!" So bubbled Jackie Gleason, the Brooklyn boulevardier, on TV and radio last week, seconded by Jimmy Durante and Judy Holliday. In English, Spanish, Yiddish and Italian, 19 New-York newspapers were sprinkled with a dozen other catchy ads. Sample: a migraine victim with arrows piercing his skull and the caption. "Cure for short temper, nagging headache, shattered nerves, daily depression-Get Live Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Live a Little | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...delta, he has been singing about sorrow with spectacular success. In four years, half a hundred Cash-composed songs have sold more than 6,000,000 records. The biggest Cash hit, Walk the Line, passed the million mark with ease; the latest, Don't Take Your Guns to Town, is well on its way to repeating that performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Write Is Wrong | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...idea that even Maverick's satiric creators might envy: Danny Thomas, as an immigrant tailor in the Old West, stands the taunts of the town nasties as long as he can and then swaps his pressin' iron for the shootin' kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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