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Word: basher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presto! The tangle turns into a cat's cradle of evidence that whodunit expert Agatha Christie, author of the long-running play on which the picture is based, manipulates with the skill and deft craftsmanship of long experience. The last scene is, as the British say, a basher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...outback with gully-rakers, the boy don't seem to have a bolter's. But they find him, and tell him his crimes were a furphy, and that the real spieler, that gazob at the pub, dropped his bundle and smoked for Sydney till the bible-basher got the leg-rope on him. In the end, of course, a pongo cobber shouts Smiley a bike, and everything is bokker. Got the flaming drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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