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Word: bouncers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With 4:55 gone in the fourth quarter, McIntosh, at right inside, timed a high bouncer near the Cardinal goal perfectly, and drilled it past Dubanoski. Mildly elated after McIntosh's fine shot, the Crimson tallied again two and one-half minutes later, when wing Sam Rodd headed in Ekpebu's corner kick...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Crushes Wesleyan | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

...addicted to morphine while under treatment in an Army hospital. Unaware that he is hooked, his pregnant wife (Eva Marie Saint) cannot fathom his jagged nerves, his remoteness, his all-night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray's indulgent brother (Anthony Franciosa). a bouncer in a B-girl bar, understands too well; on Don's perennial promise of "quitting tomorrow.'' Tony has foolishly shot his savings keeping the lad aloft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...escort were shabbily dressed, their arrival in a dive invariably resulted in the same "sudden, startling transformation." The yipping, hollering, three-piece band would stop its "loud perversion" of hillbilly music. The patrons would stalk out, glaring venomously at the intruders. In one joint a husky bouncer planted himself beside the reporters, "cracked his fingernails and waited, just looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anglo-Saxon Migration | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...gambling casino: cover all bets, wager everybody he is wrong and depend on the constant and modest profit of the house odds inherent in the dice or deck or wheel. Our new one seems to be the house manager's asking his syndicate to let the bouncer carry a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Lester Lanin gave his monogrammed beanies to appreciative dates as he played, but one Clubman remarked that very few members were dancing because "even when you make it a closed party and hire a bouncer, all sorts of riff-raff get in." For one reason or another there wasn't the spirit that the visitor remembered from New Haven last fall...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Chilled Crimson Intruders Find Little Cheer at Princeton Clubs | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

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