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Word: utah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charging like an affronted rhino, Gene Fullmer, 28, roughhoused flustered Challenger Spider Webb, 28, around the ring in Logan, Utah, to win a unanimous decision, keeping the middleweight championship of the National Boxing Association (recognized by all states but New York and Massachusetts, which still hold Sugar Ray Robinson champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...rather goofed, but the news is good news all the same. J. Bracken Lee was six times mayor of Price, Utah [pop. 6,000] and not Salt Lake City, as reported in issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...English trailer headquarters on the eve of his greatest decision. There is the breathtaking invasion fleet of some 5,000 ships stretching from the Normandy coast back to the embarkation ports of England. There is the gore and gallantry of the assault troops slashing their way onto Omaha and Utah beaches through the underbrush of mines, barbed wire, antitank and antipersonnel devices, while being Jashed by bullets, mortar and artillery fire from the German Atlantic Wall. As one British marine classically understated it when his outfit was dumped 50 yards offshore and forced to swim through a hail of machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Want of a Shoe | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Salt Lake City. Left for dead last November when he ran third in the three-man race for the U.S. Senate, Dinosaurian Sometime Republican J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battle for City Hall | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Texas Whip | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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