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Word: wingdinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trivia & Fluffs. As always, the ubiquitous TV reporters caught some memorable glimpses: the unchivalrous disinterest of newspaper-reading delegates on ladies' day; NBC's pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Biggest Studio | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

France was poor and the times were bad, but Catherine de Medici and her son King Henry III were throwing a royal wingding, and they were not a pair to pinch a franc. Catherine's valet de chambre, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, cooked up for the occasion a lavish combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romeo on Three Levels | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

The Newport wingding was further evidence that jazz is enjoying its biggest boom in years, with record sales soaring and nightclubs sprouting new jazz acts all over the country. A crowd of 6,000 fans jammed into Newport's dingy old open-air Casino for the first-night concert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cats by the Sea | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Dean, as in all his recent pictures, gives the impression of a man consciously restraining an enormous talent in order to give his partner a chance, but Jerry, for a change, has done a little work on his part. He has a real wingding with Sheree North in a jive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Last week's communal wingding was staged solely to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the introduction to Tehuantepec of La Sandunga, originally a Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Bali Ha'i-By-the-River | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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