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Word: hung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, Chairman Powell climbed into his howdah, told newsmen he would preside at pro-Nixon gatherings throughout the state, whether strategy sessions or crossroads rallies. Personable Wes Powell's sweeping sense of authority was evident as he chaired his first board of directors' meeting; behind him hung a chart showing the Governor at the top of the organizational pyramid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Out of the Tent | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...drab suburb of Arcueil, four miles south of Paris, stands an undistinguished building with a partly frosted glass window through which may be glimpsed a plaster angel negligently hung upside down. A bronze shingle on the door identifies the place as the foundry of the Susse Brothers, a name as famous among modern sculptors as Benvenuto Cellini's. Many major sculptors will have their works cast by no other foundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Famed Foundry | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Perhaps the stockings will be hung from the chimney with more care this year. For it seems that an anthropologist (it never matters who in these accounts) discovered the origin of St. Nicholas in a primitive fertility god--truly a shock for those of us who have regarded the great man with blind affection all these years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry Christmas | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

...universe," says Narrator Kerouac at the outset, by way of scene setting. On the screen, a beautiful but weary woman opens the shutters of her pad. (She is played by Delphine Youngerman, who calls herself Beltiane.) Outside is Manhattan's Bowery; inside are her little boy and, hung on a chair, her absent husband's "tortured socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENDSVILLE: Zen-Hur | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Next day, hung over in headline. Rooney woke up and got sore, conceded that he'd been "half smashed," but "a man would have to be drunk to appear on that show. Paar is the dregs of television." That afternoon, the two men met, and in the end both apologized. Mickey was supposed to reappear on Paar's show for the sake of good will, but he changed his mind. Paar gleefully announced his replacement: Moppet Star Evelyn (Eloise) Rudie, nine years old and ten inches shorter than Mickey's 5 ft. 3. Full of good taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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