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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in Hollywood's Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, all falls are not prat. Last week doorknob-bald Cinemidol Yul Brynner looked more dashed than dashing after he tried some Cossack-style horsemanship for MGM's The Brothers Karamazov, swooped too low, fractured a vertebra. And Cinemactress Rita Hayworth kicked up her heels during the Pal Joey shooting, got sent to the showers with a gimpy tendon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...will even tell him when a slight change of course or altitude has found a more favorable wind. A common experience for Navy pilots flying with the 67 is to take off from San Diego, navigate across the continent by watching a single needle, and come down through a cloud deck to find the East Coast destination right in front of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Doppler Reckoning | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...distinguish the buttered side of the bread, shed only cigar smoke: "Ah, there is an old Chinese proverb that is the best clue to the incompatibility of David and John: 'When two eagles fly off together into the sky and disappear into a cloud, who can say which flew the higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...from a few feet away. Composed of Du Pont's Orion, Union Carbide's Dynel and other synthetics, the phony mink gets its effect by combining both long and short hairs to imitate real mink, will come in several shades. Joining the company's synthetic beaver ("Cloud No. 9") and sealskin ("Kissing Cousin"), a coat will cost less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...fierce skirmish of the Korean war in late 1950, Army Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., an American Indian from Wisconsin, died gallantly, won the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding his position, though mortally wounded. At ceremonies earlier this month, honoring Red Cloud and other Indians killed in Korea, peppery old (82) Korean President Syngman Rhee loosed a surprise blast at some of Hollywood's vaguely historical horse operas. Cried Rhee: "Movie producers [should] stop making films that show American Indians being killed by white men. It is very, very unwise and inhumane. The Communists are making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Korea v. Dead Indians | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

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