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Word: upness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The magic lamp went up in 1947, one of the first official achievements of jovial Mayor J. W. (for James Willis) Godfrey, gas-station operator hand-picked and backed in five re-elections by the local political boss, spectacled Ralph Dawson, who doubles as city attorney. Mayor Godfrey drawls that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: The Light That Never Fails | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Last week agents of the American Automobile Association and the Georgia State Department of Commerce sat down for still another in a long procession of meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: The Light That Never Fails | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

At the rate of 2,000 an hour, motorists rolled onto the motorway on its first day, and went weaving and swerving across the unfamiliar lanes in a spine-chilling display of what police later called "bad traffic-lane discipline." Fast drivers jockeyed at speeds that reached 120 m.p.h. Slowpoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: M-l for Murder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

For the first time in a decade, French Communist papers, instead of referring to De Gaulle brusquely by surname alone, prefaced it respectfully with the title "General." But this was not all. Abandoning a longtime boycott on social affairs attended by De Gaulle, eight Communist Deputies showed up at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On Good Behavior | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Drop That Name | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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