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Word: yourselfing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brigadier General Luis Ordóñez delayed his abductors 20 minutes with a tongue-lashing but was forced to go along anyway. The capture of tough Major General Deogracias Fonseca was noisy; a guard managed to scream: "Save yourself, General! They've come to kill you!" Struggling, Fonseca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Half-Day Revolt | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

For 80 years a firm of language merchants has sold monolingual Americans what most U.S. high schools and colleges do not give-the conversational skill to haggle with a foreign hackie, wrangle with a waiter, or, as has been necessary more than once, the ability to ask directions to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Language Merchants | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

The deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curtis Takes Shelter | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

If you need an automobile or a new suit or a set of golf clubs, don't buy them. What this nation needs is people who are willing to buy what no one else will. For if you buy the obvious things, then you are buying what other people are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If You Got It... | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

And don't go around snivelling about how little money you have. Everybody knows you have just oodles stashed away for a rainy day. Well, friends, at the present time there's a flood. So pile up the money and build the dam that will help our nation's economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If You Got It... | 4/25/1958 | See Source »

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