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Word: personalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, a toxicologist for American Cyanamid, which markets the controversial weed-killer, stated that a person "would have to consume 15,000 pounds of contaminated cranberries a day for many years" to sustain ill effects. Belatedly, Flemming's Department dispatched a hundred chemists to separate the good cranberries from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cranberry Bog | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

...interested in your discussion of [CBS President] Frank Stanton's attitude toward Person to Person [Nov. 2], and feel inclined to take up the cudgels for Mr. Murrow. I was on this program two years ago. When you state that it is "vaguely" rehearsed, you are right. "Vaguely" is the word. I live in the country; therefore it takes a number of days to cable a house and build various steel towers. I talked some time prior to the program to the writer and director-twice if my memory serves me. Please bear in mind that these gentlemen didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...favor of the rigged program. Most of them involve prizes and/or money. Person to Person didn't and doesn't. But it isn't even "vaguely" rigged. I yield to no one in my admiration for Mr. Stanton, but this is really a little too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...talk, and produces a very convincing portrayal of a vigorous old man. He acts some stories out, wanders from rostrum to table to chair and back again, puffs leisurely on a cigar, and generally presents an animated and engrossing performance, despite the fact that Holbrook is the only person on stage all through the two and a half hour program...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

Indeed, the parent's worst mistake may have been his softness. Every person craves some punishment; if he cannot get it at home, he goes to extremes to seek it. As Bergler told one homosexual patient, who was rarely spanked as a child: "You had to work hard to get your beatings at home. The generations brought up in the era of 'progressive education' faced the same problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Strange World | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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