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Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Crazy Cliff. When the seedy night elevator man proposes sending a young prostitute to his room, bravado makes him play along. Besides: "I worry about that stuff sometimes. I read this book once . . . that had this very sophisticated, suave, sexy guy in it . . . and all he did in his spare time was beat women off with a club ... He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right. It was a very corny book-I realize that-but I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Love & 20-20 Vision | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...like to do and be: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Love & 20-20 Vision | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Albuquerque. Hungering for a break that will send him back to the big time, he stumbles on a disaster reminiscent of the Floyd Collins story of 1925: a cave-in has pinned Leo Minosa, owner of a roadside curio shop, deep in a nearby labyrinth of ancient Indian cliff dwellings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1951 | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Fraught with real peril to the Western world though it was, the news from Iran sounded like a chapter from The Perils of Pauline. Britain was hanging on to a sheer cliff and the spectators were watching breathlessly to see whether she would fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Cliff Hanger | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Since he narrowly misses pushing her off a cliff and tampers with the brakes on her car, she concludes that he is. However, sturdy William Lundigan, a new-found ally, won't believe her until the last minute, which provides a handy excuse for postponing the moment when Valentina can safely fall into her savior's arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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