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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down on the Dogwood Hollow Social Club. Houseowner William A. Hughes, who lives about 1½ miles away, was summoned before a justice of the peace, ordered to bounce the new occupants and their noise or be fined for a zoning violation. Hughes complied; the members finished their coffee, turned off their phonograph and disappeared. At week's end Householder Myers waited uneasily to see in what guise they would next turn up. Said he: "I want to be the same as any other American; I want to be treated like anyone else. This is a war of nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: War of Nerves | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...vacation. But in Haiti the junta had to call out troops to smash a storekeepers' strike inspired by Déjoie supporters, the next day put Port-au-Prince under martial law-a move which aroused fears that Haiti's junta might not yet be ready to turn over power to civilian authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Free Elections | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Freshmen passing through the post-Registration gauntlet must find the number and verbosity of the representatives of the undergraduate political clubs bewildering. There are the Young Democrats, not to be confused with the Liberal Union, and the Young Republicans, not to be confused with the Eisenhower Republicans, who in turn are not to be confused with the Conservative League...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Political Handouts | 10/4/1957 | See Source »

...amiable companion to the bottom of the bottle, he has a reserve that keeps his closest friends at arm's length. "I've never had any intimate friends," he once confided. "If I were in serious trouble, I would have trouble knowing where to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...these systems start transmitting programs over the airwaves from coast to coast. The main obstacle is cost. Pay TVmen admit that each station will have to pay up to $3,500 an hour to hook into a toll network, thus will need to saturate the market to turn a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Test for Toll TV | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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