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Word: traffice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Callas had come and gone, leaving the field to her great rival, Renata Tebaldi. As Mimi in Boheme, Tebaldi had already caused an emotional demonstration by partisans who tied up Manhattan traffic around the Met long after midnight. Last week in a brand-new production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Met's first in 21 years, Tebaldi's performance was memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Todd-AO Traviata | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...appear with Tebaldi in last week's production would not have been easy for any singer. The Met crowd was clearly there to render personal homage to Tebaldi, and at the end, there were 15 curtain calls, a shower of bouquets from the balcony-and some rousingly snarled traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Todd-AO Traviata | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Again and again executive wives themselves state firmly that the only sensible approach to the goal of being an ideal executive wife is to relax and forget about emulating a prototype. As Mrs. Charles Vychopen, wife of the traffic director of Slick Airways, put it: "You can't afford to get too inhuman about everything, and you can't be too sophisticated about how you act. The best thing is just to try to be yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EXECUTIVE WIFE: The Facts Contradict the Fiction | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Help Me ... In Dorchester, England, charged with obstructing traffic by letting eleven sheep stray onto the highway, Thomas Horsington objected: "In all humility, the Lord Almighty made the heaven and earth; and even He had sheep that strayed," was fined $2.80 anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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