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Word: awful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original, The Clown consists mostly of variations on one situation: a brave little boy keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of his dad's continual boozing and crapshooting. This he accomplishes largely by saying "Aw, gee" and looking forlornly at the camera. As in the original version, the father dies at the fadeout-in this case, after having made good on a television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Skipper Mathiot wasn't complaining. While Slo-Mo-Shun V also took the second heat, Mathiot and Crewman Tom Whitaker sat it out in the pit, working on a balky engine. "Aw, we're in this race for fun," said Mathiot. "What the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death at Seattle | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...Sandakan, the social pyramid was still intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to Borneo | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...took the initiative. Obviously a Southerner, he said "I'm a Democrat, as you can tell from my accent." Representative Vaitses spoke up, "Judging from your accent you're not the same type of Democrat we have here." Faintly heard above the laughter was Chairman Conte advising Hardee "Aw, don't listen to that...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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