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Word: cuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaman Carl Fowler, the bluejacket on watch on the destroyer U.S.S. Frank Knox, who heard Buie's yell, see cut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

India last week heard for the first time the full story of Constable Karam Singh. A stocky, moon-faced Sikh with a curly black mustache, Karam Singh. 49, was the commander of the Indian police patrol in Ladakh that was ambushed and cut to pieces by the Chinese last October (TIME, Nov. 2). Captured, Singh was treated with a mixture of brutality, buffoonery, cynicism and dishonesty, which indicates that Chinese methods with their prisoners have varied little since the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Prisoner in the Mountains | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...long, angry denunciation of Tristan that followed, she displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role. As the opera unfolded, Soprano Nilsson continued to dominate the stage with such ringing power that she cut without difficulty through the opulent textures of the Wagnerian orchestra-particularly in the climactic Liebestod in Act III. Perhaps because of debut stresses, the voice also had its marked drawbacks; at times it sounded strained, took on a steely glitter when more opulent warmth was called for. Apparently a more severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Flagstad? | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...insurance as against $40 for a man in full health. The penalty drops with longevity: at 60, he may be paying only $15 to $20 additional. Last week, physicians for the Equitable Life Assurance Society listed four steps that may promote a cardiac's survival and insurability: cut down excess weight, blood cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premiums & Benefits | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...will take water from a pail without teaching. By extension from animal to human husbandry, Jarvis contends that if a pregnant woman adds honey and vinegar to a well-balanced diet, her baby will have a thick shock of hair and long, strong fingernails, both needing to be cut the day it is born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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