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Word: chipmunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he first loped onstage last fall opposite such formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High-Priced Pea Picker | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...obviously teetering on the brink of a good cry. She barely had time to tell how she had raised her three teen-age boys all by herself when Master of Ceremonies Jack Bailey shoved her over the edge with a deft flick of folksiness. "Why," he chirped with chipmunk cheeriness. "you don't look much over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Troubles & Bubbles | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...sake of the gopher (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), then the Senator should at least show mercy for the sake of the chipmunk (Tamais and Eutamius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mercy | 3/14/1957 | See Source »

Creating spoofs of odd gangster types, the actors turn this bedlam into constant comedy. As chief thief, Guinness wears enormous sweaters, a ten foot scarf, and chipmunk teeth. The stare of a worried, weird master-mind that often adorns his face can merge effortlessly into an upset smile of sudden defeat or a polished smirk of careless confidence. Gliding through perpetual intrigue, Guinness is at his best...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Ladykillers | 4/24/1956 | See Source »

...Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mental Pushups | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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