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Word: arrowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon where Mossadegh was guest of honor, Acheson told a story: a wagon train, crossing the American West, was attacked by Indians. A rescue party found the wagons burned, and the corpses of the pioneers lying around them. The only man still alive lay under a wagon, with an arrow through his back. "Does it hurt?" he was asked. The dying man whispered: "Only when I laugh." Acheson looked pointedly at Mossadegh-who just doubled up with appreciative laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Challenge of the East | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Father Feeney heads the St. Benedict's Center on Arrow Street, across the way from the old part of Adams House. The Center used to be a Catholic Club of Harvard and Radcliffe students. Since the spring of 1949, it has become the hub of a nation-wide group of self-termed "militant Catholics" who defy the higher Catholic authorities and adopt a line that has been commended by the American Fascist Union...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...winnowed out of a Pulitzer-prize history by Bernard DeVoto, the story tamely recalls 1950'S Broken Arrow, without its surprise or suspense. Trapper Gable marries a proud Indian maiden (Maria Elena Marques) so he can use her to ease his way into the beaver-rich bailiwick of her grandfather, a Blackfoot chief (played by well-disguised Oldtimer Jack Holt). On the trail, he learns to love and respect her. Their marriage wins the blessing of the Blackfoot ruler and gives them a son. But when one of Gable's men kills the old chief to satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...liberal borrowings from such poles-apart sources as Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Beneath all the imitative layers is a distinct and often funny Shriner personality, which shows to good advantage in his gentle ribbing of the sponsor's product, Arrow Shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...undergraduate at the lower left has hidden his morning paper under his coat at the approach of the photographer. In the next aisle one can see the legs of a sleeping Tiger. The black arrow at the top points out the newspaper read by another student, while the man at the right is deeply engrossed in a pulp magazine or comic book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Students Reopen Fight Against Compulsory Chapel Rules | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

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