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Word: wideness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced with such opposition, the Chinese Reds-in a rare admission of serious trouble-promised that the communization of Tibet would be delayed at least six years. Many Chinese Red civilians were sent home. But still the Khamba insurrection flourished. Encampments of the tribesmen began to dot the wide plain around Lhasa. They consolidated their hold on the barren, treeless region that runs along the borders of India, Bhutan and Sikkim. The nervous Chinese Reds countered by erecting watchtowers along the Lhasa road, sandbagged strategic positions around the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: Call to Freedom | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

American Odyssey. Why has the television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen? Why has it overtaken the space cowboys, the precinct operas and the llama dramas? Says ABC Program Director Thomas W. Moore: "The western is just the neatest and quickest type of escape entertainment, that's all." But few are willing to let it go at that. Parents and professional worriers are concerned about the violence and sadism in the horse opera. Psychoanalysts are looking for sex symbols (all those guns, of course), Oedipal patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...real western hero of the period bore little resemblance to the sweet-smelling show-business variety of latter days. He was literally ''wild and woolly and full of fleas/And seldom curried below the knees." Instead of skintight pants and store-boughten fumadiddle. he wore a pair of wide "hair pants." cut straight off the cow. He stank of bear grease and was usually crawling with "pants rats," as he called his lice. He slept with whores and Indian squaws, because there weren't many other women around, and whenever he got the chance, he got bear-eatin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk is for his ulcer, he explains, the Scotch for him), was on the set next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Widow Britannia | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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