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Word: bobs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covered. In Dallas, Patrolman Bob Hargis gave a ticket to a speeding insurance salesman who wasted no time, talked Hargis into buying insurance for his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Hotel, a haunt of actors and other free souls, the grog flowed as from a well. Then Cinemale Robert Mitchum, in Ireland to star in an Irish Republican Army epic titled A Terrible Beauty, walked in. The facts were hard to come by, but burly (220 Ibs.) Bob Mitchum hazily allowed that he had been approached by an insistent autograph hound. Heavy-lidded ex-Truck Driver Mitchum scrawled a mild obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...high and forward, weight over the horse's withers, boots in two of the shortest stirrups in racing, he is a jockey in a hurry. He is strong enough to ride all afternoon, and he applies the measure of cold cash, not sentiment, to his work. Shrugs Jockey Bob Ussery (rhymes with fussery): "If I ride in the Kentucky Derby, I want a real shot at winning. Otherwise, I'd rather ride six mounts at Belmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hungry Okie | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Bob Richenburg: "To paint is to participate in a poised absurdity. It is the taking of the hand of tenderness into the fearfulness of aspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Is? | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Dallas, State Fair Music Hall: Bob Crosby and Janis Paige make music in High Button Shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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