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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that you should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Specialist | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...Japanese magazine and started seeing things. To Lieut. Commander Bryant W. Line, who does not read Japanese, the stylized dabs and curlicues of the brushwork characters, known as Kanji, conjured up all manner of fanciful situations: poker players in a pup tent, an irate baseball umpire, a boy peering wistfully into a saloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crazy Kanji | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Hal March (real name: Harold Mendelson), 36, TV quizmaster ($64,000 Question), and Candy Toxton, 31, onetime model: a boy, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Lindsay. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Among the passengers: a salesman (Dan Dailey) with a novelty line, who tries it out on a blonde across the aisle (Jayne Mansfield); a couple of harried marrieds who give their boy-crazy daughter (Dolores Michaels) no peace. As the trip starts, the daughter makes a pass at the driver of the bus (Rick Jason), who has just left his wife (Joan Collins) because she drinks too much and smooches too little. Meanwhile, the salesman is pitching for the blonde: "I have depths, honest. I think I have." And back at the depot the highway patrol drops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 17, 1957 | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...armpit. Another is John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West's own credo: "I always find it necessary to burlesque the mystery of feeling at its source; I must laugh at myself, and if the laugh is 'bitter,' I must laugh at the laugh. The ritual of feeling demands burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Despiser | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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