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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The plot read like the scenario of an old Sydney Greenstreet movie, but the main character was all too real. Rugged, soft-voiced Ted Lewin, 52, is an American ex-prizefighter with a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plug-Ugly American | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

The Episcopal Bishop of the California diocese, with full rubric and laying on of hands, had conferred on a Methodist minister-not Episcopal orders but episcopal orders. As a result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Episcopal Methodist | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Underwood, who was appointed 23 years ago by F.D.R. and is known as a tough man on the bench, disregarded the trustbusters' recommendations. He fined the companies $20,000 and the individuals $5,000, plus the jail sentences, saying: "In cases of this character a fine is not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Mercy of the Court | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Upton Sinclair has always been the most unreal character in his own books. He proves this once again in Theirs Be the Guilt, a re-edit of Manassas, which he wrote 56 years ago. Sinclair, then 24, was living in two tents near Princeton, NJ. and doing research from books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molasses & Manassas | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molasses & Manassas | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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