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Word: chickens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie for the price of one). Television's shaggy old movies and annoying commercials are already driving people back to the movie theaters (look at the box-office figures). Said one spokesman: "They're getting tired of watching Charles Laughton, as King Henry the Eighth, tossing a chicken bone over his shoulder-smack into a singing bottle of 20th Century beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comeback in Hollywood | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Stranger In the House. In Norborne, Mo., Alex Stroud, 58, returning home unexpectedly after serving a two-year jail sentence for chicken-stealing, got a rifle bullet in the shoulder from his son, who mistook him for a burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Pitcher Satchel Paige, brought back from the Negro American league this season to throw his "nuthin' ball" for the St. Louis Browns. How did he keep in shape? To an impressed audience Satchel explained that he started early by avoiding beer, whisky, gin, tea, coffee, chicken livers and lamb. If you smoke, he added, don't inhale. "I just blows it out my nose." Playing ball in the summer, hunting every day in winter, also help. "I've got to keep my legs good because if your legs go bad your arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...through Fri. noon, CBS-TV) has followed the familiar progression: novel to movie to radio or TV show. Betty MacDonald's saga of a city couple on a chicken farm is inspirational in tone, concerned with small problems, and played to the hilt by the cast, notably by a breathless actress named Pat Kirkland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Honor has retired from his spot as doorman and his avocation as match-maker. He is now happily married to a former WAC, and is living on a chicken farm in New Hampshire. They say he is very happy, but occasionally he returns to the Lighthouse to say hello and to look around...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Saturday Night in Scollay Square: Burlies, Girlies, Bars, and Bums | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

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