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Word: cowardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was nothing unusual in the fact that John W. Hay, 49, was "a dental coward" and neglected his teeth so long that for two months he had to spend two evenings a week and several hours each Saturday in the chair. What was unusual was that his dentist, knowing that Hay was president of Los Angeles' American Hospital Management Corp., prodded him into doing something about it. Said the dentist: "Why don't you get us a dental hospital in Los Angeles? Then a whole job like this could be done in two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cavities Unlimited | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

They Came to Cordura. Hero Gary Cooper, the man of courage through a long cinematic career, turns coward in this $4,000,000 western but achieves, with Rita Hayworth's help, a different, spiritual bravery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

They Came to Cordura. Hollywood's standard brand of horsemeat is dished up with a strong sauce of metaphysics in this Gary Cooper western about a coward who shows the meaning of courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

They Came to Cordura. Hollywood's standard brand of horsemeat is dished up with a strong sauce of metaphysics in this Gary Cooper western about a coward who shows the meaning of courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...them, and sleepless, burning-eyed, with the energy of obsession drives them across the desert, drives them without horses, without food, without water toward a little Spanish town whose name means sanity. And as the cruel days go by, the heroes come to see that the coward is the greater hero, the more deeply courageous man. What they have is physical courage, not to be despised. But what he has is the highest kind of courage, the courage of his spiritual convictions. In the end it is the coward's kind of courage that brings the chastened heroes safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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