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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rich Poverty ... | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Into the town of Comodoro Rivadavia on the windswept Patagonian coast flew President Arturo Frondizi last week to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the day an Alsatian engineer, drilling for water, brought in the country's first paying oil well. What Frondizi saw, touring by open car, was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Oil Boom | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Anne Marno: CDXX. After the family celebration, after the gilded sign ("Welcome home, star!") came down from the Italiano door, other acting jobs came slowly. Anne kept busy peddling chocolate-covered cherries in drugstores and giving English lessons to Peruvian Singer Yma Sumac. Then she got a running part in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

¶Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck, who has been busy on the West Coast and elsewhere promoting Charlie Halleck as the G.O.P.'s most promising vice-presidential bet, suddenly called off the campaign. Reason: the folks at home have that neglected feeling, are wondering whether Charlie has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Straws in the Wind | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

The nation's TV football fans spent the afternoon frantically flicking from the Colts-Forty-Niners game on CBS to NBC, where undefeated Syracuse, intent on disproving the taunt that it had played only so-so opposition, was busy wrecking a U.C.L.A. team that had upended high ranking Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Showdown at San Francisco | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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