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Word: chillun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hatch is more likely to run the state like a quiet grandaddy trying to bring his chillun up right. He doesn't have the kind of style that spells action, and if he loses this election all people will be able to say is that maybe he is "too nice a guy" to be governor. People like to compare Hatch to Francis W. Sargent, who had a crack at running the state just before Dukakis. The liberals dumped Sargent for Dukakis, who they thought would be a real can-do-kind of guy. Beware of the man who says...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: You Sure You Want a Governor? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...cabinet). Margaret Dumont is a rich widow who is quite literally Groucho's biggest backer. There are millions of classic scenes in the film, including Chico's trial for treason, a war conference that evolves into a revival meeting ("I got guns, you got guns, all God's chillun got guns."), and the famous mirror sequence. Serious critics have tried to treat the film as a sophisticated surrealistic masterpiece; that kind of analysis, while plausible, just misses the point. Duck Soup works because it whisks away the hypocritical veneer of rationality which policymakers too often use to conceal the real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That's Entertainment? | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...work and folk songs a voice of stunning richness and emotional power. A commanding actor, he made his stage debut in 1922, impressing Playwright Eugene O'Neill and beginning a friendship that led to starring roles in a string of O'Neill plays (All God's Chillun Got Wings, The Hairy Ape and The Emperor Jones). Robeson's most spectacular stage triumph after Show Boat (1928), in which he sang Ol' Man River, was Othello, which in 1930 drew 20 curtain calls in London; in 1943 it ran for 296 performances in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...line with unvented 50 gallon drums of gas rolling around loose in the back of vans. That's 200 gallons of explosion ready to go off as these ninny jackrabbits pile through towns. And through stoplights. I could just see it--piling into a school bus, killing fiteen chillun," said the Bolus and Snopes man. This year Brock decided he wouldn't have any of those guys." Yates has set up an elaborate screening system. Potential entrants must send in $5 to Cannonball Enterprises at a P.O. Box near Yates's New York country home. At last count, 159 inquiries...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...Eliot once wrote a review of the printed text of All God's Chillun Got Wings. He observed, "Mr. O'Neill not only understands one aspect of the 'Negro problem,' but he succeeds in giving this problem universality-in implying, in fact, the universal problem of differences which create a mixture of admiration, love and contempt, with the consequent tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Haunted House | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

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