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Word: stalking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of you have sharp minds not connected to your eyes," said Anderson. Brandishing his stalk, he analyzed its structure with a breathless flow of higher mathematics; he tossed in rich dollops of economics, sociology and religion. "Man's history is that of maize, the great crop," said he. "In this highly patterned world, you must see more and more complex patterns." Murmured a dazzled Dutch psychologist: "A-maize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time to Think | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...shuddery look at Jean Cocteau, in which France's brilliant jack-of-arts sits tickling his lips with a stalk of lily of the valley, calculating his audience as coldly as a lizard calculates a fly-a portrait of the infant prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peeping Tome | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...pool, which tails off into the lobby. (Late-arriving employees often enter by way of the diving board.) Station engineers are given to dressing in an ugly, hairy-ape costume and dashing about with another WAPEster in hot pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir instead of cashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Gone Ape | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...July 22 The Dave King Show (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Summer fun and games with the top banana on Britain's comic stalk. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north of Boston in Wakefield, Mass. Most spectacular feature: a 19th century New England fishing village, from which the kiddies can slosh off in whale boats to stalk a 7O-ft. replica of Moby-Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Disneyland & Son | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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