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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Up To Scratch. In Alma, Ga., while eloquently orating at a Veterans Day celebration, Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd discovered that he was standing in the middle of an ant hill, and that thousands of ants were crawling up his trousers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

One of the best-kept secrets of World War II was spilled by British Historian Arthur Bryant in a book called The Turn of the Tide (TIME, May 20, 1957). Who really devised the strategy that defeated Germany? Bryant's answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Won the War? I Did | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

To his regular sales force Eaton added a staff of "silent salesmen," as he called the works of art he assembled at Forest Lawn. The first of these was Edith Barrett Parson's Duck Baby, later followed by a vast sculpture group called The Mystery of Life, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Selling Immortality. Next came "shock tactics," a series of suave radio commercials about what Eaton later called "the one purchase everybody has to make." Next, the builder boosted sales by offering waterproof, fireproof, wormproof and even quakeproof vaults. Every morning he called his salesmen together and started the day with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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