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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs (the only facilities available for big-scale entertaining), were joined on one occasion by Britain's former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who is visiting Acapulco for his health. President Eisenhower got the full tourist treatment: brilliant fireworks, high-diving exhibitions, exotic Aztec dances, a high-style water-skiing show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: South to Friendship | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

When press photographers were in range, Reuther dodged palm tree backgrounds, wore a business suit and kept his bulging briefcase prominently at hand as a businesslike prop. He refused to go near the water, scheduled a breakfast-to-dinner round of indoor conferences with his underlings. But his battle against pleasure made little headway with the majority of some 200 labor chiefs, relatives and staffers, who refreshed themselves on the beach with a mammoth rum drink called the "Tropical Itch," went sun-scorched to San Juan's casinos and nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Duress in the Sun | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Dramatic Workshop at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis. Harry also persuaded Marguerite to marry him one evening in 1948 by swinging her over a parapet by the East River and holding her suspended over the water until she said yes. "I married him," she now explains, "because I felt that if I didn't, he was going to turn delinquent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...celebrated Chicago speech charging TV with "decadence and escapism."Reporter-Entertainer Murrow was stripped down to the chitchat of TV's Person to Person and Small World, a daily radio news report and an occasional guest shot as a big-name narrator. Moreover, Ed Murrow got into deep water with his scarcely responsible The Business of Sex (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). Last week Ed Murrow indulged in a little escapism of his own, announced he would take a year's leave of absence from CBS for "traveling, listening, reading and trying to learn." Murrow, now 50, insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Don't See It Now | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...KNOT-SHIP design has been ordered from Grumman Aircraft by the Maritime Administration. The 100-ft. test craft, weighing between 50 and 100 tons, will use hydrofoils, completely submerged winglike structures that raise the vessel's hull from the water, cut down resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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