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Word: charm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...player does not make a winning team in the intricate, machine-tooled, split-second game that big-league baseball has become. But even Willie Mays' teammates seem to feel that his presence works some special charm that makes the club better in the field and at bat. To support the feeling, they point to the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Still, it has charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: PHYLLIS McGINLEY'S SAINTS WITHOUT TEARS | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...They are geniuses . . . they have enormous charm and complete selflessness. So they are the easiest to love. I think there will be a great many of them in this century. Saints always crop up in times of trouble and crisis and heresy, and this is a period of the greatest heresy the world has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Easiest to Love | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...Eternal Smile & Other Stories, by Par Lagerkvist. A fine collection of stories and fables from the inventive mind of the Swedish Nobel Prizewinner, ranging from childish charm to ghostlike horror (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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