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Word: yourselfing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I said, 'I don't want to scare you. All I want to be is left alone.' He talked a little more and he got red in the face, and he said, 'If you bother my two boys, if you embarrass my two boys, you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Terrifying Teamsters | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

At 14, Christian had his palm read by a fortuneteller. She said: "You will find yourself without money, but you will make your living from women, and it is by them that you will succeed." His family laughed, moved to Paris and tried to train him to be a diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Again and again executive wives themselves state firmly that the only sensible approach to the goal of being an ideal executive wife is to relax and forget about emulating a prototype. As Mrs. Charles Vychopen, wife of the traffic director of Slick Airways, put it: "You can't afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EXECUTIVE WIFE: The Facts Contradict the Fiction | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Jean-Baptiste decides he would rather be wrong than self-righteous. He dabbles in sensuality ("A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers"). But this leads to remorse, especially when one girl whom he desires jumps into the river and he does nothing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul in Despair | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Is suicide the answer? People "will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action." Is God the answer? He is "out of style." Is there a second chance? No, Adam used up man's only chance. In Camus' existentially-locked universe of absurdity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul in Despair | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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