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Word: convincingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's ice hockey team poured in three last-period goals yesterday on its way to a convincing 4 to 0 victory over the United States. The win puts Russia at the head of round-robin competition in the Winter Olympic Games at Cortina.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russia Defeats U.S. in Hockey, 4-0 | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

This kind of story-telling is a touchy business. Though some of the early psychology is somewhat obscure, the evolving, tortuous effects upon the Prisoner, played by Alec Guinness, are uncommonly convincing. Probing into his subject's mind, which he must capture, the Interrogator is cooly restrained. At last he...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Prisoner | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

United Nations intervention, however, must take a discreet form. For one thing, the troops should come largely from nations which would not appear to the Arabs as representative of Western colonialism. Members from the Asian bloc, such as the Philippines, would be convincing. The border guard need not be a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking Over Jordan | 2/3/1956 | See Source »

Thus Painter Charles Burchfield confided to his journal the self-doubts that have tormented him throughout his career. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum gave convincing proof of just how wrong Watercolorist Burchfield could be. The museum's major retrospective showing of 114 Burchfield paintings and sketches rated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art from Nature | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

"This story," according to the publicity come-on, "was filmed on location . . . inside a woman's soul!" Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann, with the help of a sharp script by Helen Deutsch and Jay Richard Kennedy, gets around inside his subject with tact and agility. Susan Hayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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