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Word: blonds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chunky, blond teen-ager had only entered the tournament for experience, but when he suddenly found himself in semifinals, he decided he had half a chance. When he reached the finals, he took on an added responsibility: he was the only Englishman left, and no Englishman had won the British amateur championship in 17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youngest Yet | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...never, never, never!" Into this intense reverie of earthly leave-taking floats human driftwood from the general shipwreck of war. A cuckolded buddy runs his tongue over and over the story of his wife's infidelity with a Russian as if it were an empty tooth socket. A blond fellow soldier of eroded good looks reveals that a brutal sergeant seduced him into homosexuality. Finally, there is a Polish tart and spy so moved by the lines of suffering in Andreas' face that she forgets her trade and plays Bach to him on the brothel piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Fiction | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Oscar Burke,* was a Swede, and his mother. Claire Mokler Burke, was Pennsylvania Dutch. As the eldest of six children, Arleigh worked hard on his father's 170-acre farm. But a country school teacher aroused his interest in the Navy and on June 26, 1919, the sturdy blond Swede from Boulder stepped off the old Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis railway (now defunct, but known for years to midshipmen as the "Weary, Belated & Annoyed") to begin his Navy career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Concealed Weapons. Blond, blue-eyed Father Mario Borelli, 35, son of a Neapolitan sheet-metal worker, began his ministry in 1945 preaching to factory workers. Four years later, assigned to the city's youth, he got permission to use Naples' 500-year-old, bomb-blasted Church of Mater Dei as a meeting place. He set up an organization of young workers, but the youth that interested him most were the scugnizzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Spinning Tops | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Then comes the usual mixture: one God-fearing pioneer with a bobbing adam's apple, a cross-eyed blond, and a horny cowpoke (amusingly played by Rod Steiger). And, after this, the inevitable lynching party. As reel three goes on, the question is who will save Jubal from the noose. Justice? Or indians? Or both...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Jubal | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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