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Word: cellars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poor Man's Appetite. In Milwaukee, Ralph Buchanan broke into a tavern at dawn, got hot lifting bottles of champagne out of a wine-cellar window, decided to have a quick beer, was still searching for a bottle-opener when cops came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...still shy and tense with strangers. He avoids cocktail parties as a waste of time, but loves dining out with people he knows, keeps a well-stocked cellar for home entertaining. (Quipped Friend Alexander Woollcott when Harriman became ambassador to London: "Oh to be in England now that Averell's there.") Like many a millionaire, he is thoughtless about pocket money, one day had to borrow a nickel and a penny from his legal counsel to get a candy bar and a handful of peanuts (his lunch) from a White House vending machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Patrician on the Sidewalks | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...varsity baseball nine, firmly, but not happily, occupying the Eastern League cellar after its dougle loss to Dartmouth Saturday, meets an off-and-on Tufts here at 3:45 p.m. today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Opposes Tufts Nine Here Today | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

...Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill Reshuffle | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...varsity baseball team took undisputed possession of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League cellar last Saturday by dropping a crucial doubleheader to Dartmouth, 6 to 3 and 3 to 0, and the chances are that Coach Stuffy McInnis and the 18 players who saw action would like very much to forget the whole thing...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: Nine Loses Doubleheader to Green | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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