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Word: coley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other major incidents, a crowd of about 40 white teenagers chased and stoned two Negro boys walking together. The Negroes, John Williams and Lawrence Coley, both 17, said that they were taking a short cut to a friend's house. The Army took the Negro boys into protection, but did not deal with the white assailants...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nine Negro Students Enter Little Rock's Central High | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

...Francisco, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, 32, bidding for a comeback chance against Rocky Marciano next summer, scored an impressive tenth-round knockout of younger (by seven years) and heavier (by eleven pounds) Coley Wallace, the fighter who doubles for ,the hero in the movie The Joe Louis Story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Ezzard Charles v. Coley Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Heavy weight Coley Wallace of New York stopped Bob Dunlap in 46 seconds in the sixth round with a smashing left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

...comedy. The humor is of three kinds: clean ("Moravia's so poor that the R.F.C. won't even give it a loan"); dirty (as in the low routines by Coley Worth and Nina Olivette); and some jokes that are neither clean nor dirty, but just dusty with age. The funniest part of the whole show, I thought, was "The Women," a song-and-dance routine in Act Two that satirizes everything from Sadler's Wells to the Old Howard...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Music Box | 1/31/1952 | See Source »

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