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Word: browed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marx, and in a dark, musty cellar pledged his life and liberty to the Bolshevik party. He was 16 and "sentimental"- a "slight, fragile youth," as one of the comrades described him, "with wild hair and a small, pale face lighted with brilliant, myopic eyes burning under a bulging brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Old Reliable | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mildly Mock-Archaic | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Best Actor division there is a real dilemma. No one can complain if either Marlon Brando (Viva Zapata), or Gary Cooper (High Noon), wins. But if the Academy falls back on Jose Farrier because he is famous, influential, and a high-brow actor, it will be chopping up the last remnant of its already tattered prestige...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Popularity Contest | 3/18/1953 | See Source »

Most U.S. Sunday drivers are familiar with psychological warfare, whether they realize it or not. The psychological warrior supreme is the highway cop who ostentatiously parks his big white car marked POLICE on the brow of a hill, for all drivers to see and worry about. He is no bluff. And he has a tremendous effect on the stream of traffic, and seldom has to get out in hot pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Cops on the Hill | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...Jones, who won the bred jump yesterday, took 11 points, and the meet's scoring honors. He tied last evening's high jump and finished third in the hurdles. Jumbo Jack Goldberg took first in the hurdles and fourth in the 50 yard dash, for six points. Brow 's Walter Molineux won the mile in 4:40.3, exactly 31 seconds slower than his Millrose time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts, B.U. Trackmen Nip Crimson | 2/4/1953 | See Source »

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