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Word: annoy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster's hero. The King Syndicate Viking prince is merely a good natured simpleton, not an active dolt. But if Wagner's poor acting makes Val's claim to the sword Excalibur and a seat at the Round table seem bogus, it also makes one question his right to annoy Miss Leigh and hide her from the camera. This comes of sending a squire to do a knight...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Prince Valiant | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...Roman Catholics will continue to annoy Dr. Brown and other theorists ... In cooperating with God to "Suffer the little children" to be born and given the opportunity to attain Heaven, we do not annoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...hullaballoo of political campaigns, when in the form of rallies and occasional parades, is not really intolerable. One can always escape by merely walking away. But when candidates pursue the fleeing voter with malignant sound trucks, the freedom to campaign becomes a license to annoy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Captive Audience | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

...David E. Owen, professor of History and head of the History department, commented, "A compulsory course would be self-defeating. It would just annoy students. This is not the way to deal with the problem of Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Professors Hit Argument Am. History Should Be Compulsory | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

Once a year Hatlo leaves his Pebble Beach, Calif, home to travel around the U.S. for three months searching out the amiable "snobs, cheats, phonies and bores" that populate his cartoons. "Drawing the cartoon is just a matter of looking around," says he, "and putting down the things that annoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: He'll Do It Every Time | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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