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Word: whitely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nottingham undergraduate who shook 9,001 hands in the town square, breaking Theodore Roosevelt's record of 8,513 established at a White House reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

With Nkrumah at his side, Philip moved gamely through a six-day round of sightseeing. At Accra's Nautical College, he had the appropriate words of praise for the new 150-man Ghanaian navy, which last week got its first craft-two British minesweepers. Resplendent in his white field marshal's uniform, Philip stopped off to present new Queen's colors to the trim Ghana regiment's 3rd Battalion; he also visited the headquarters of the air force, which now numbers 17 cadets. Politely, the duke inspected the ambitious new harbor project at Tema, 18 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: A Royal Visitor | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Christmas Sound Spectacular (John Klein, carillonneur; RCA Victor Stereo). It is easy to quibble with the style of this Christmas celebration, but hard to find fault with the sound. There are too many wailing choristers and glutinous strings in the standard selections (White Christmas, Jingle Bells), but the 1,453 bells of the Carillon Americana brazen it out with a clarity and resonance sure to pin any true stereo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds of Christmas | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat All or Nothing at All. In a white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave with the raucous abandon of a Merman. In the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Fullback: Bob White, 21, Ohio State; 6 ft. 2 in., 214 lbs. Major: education. "A crunching runner who could also make it as a linebacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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