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Word: dads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...chiggers beneath the skins of network bigwigs and Madison Avenue operatives is the custom of the free plug, or "plugola." A TV comic, disk jockey or M.C. slips a brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Biggest Giveaway | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...philosopher" from M.I.T. who stole $18,000 because he felt rejected, defined modern day isolationists ("Let's pick up our water and get out of the canal"), and explicated the credo of the modern radical ("I am going to change the world. . .as soon as I get dad's permission...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Thimk | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...wrote one youngster, "is quite fat, and she hates my bunny. She's always getting headaches and is quite a nuisance to have around. She always tells me to get out from under her feet when I'm not under her feet at all. My dad never laughs at a joke and is a nuisance to have around. So as I look at it there's no use for parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Authors in the Nursery | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand a smoking target pistol. "When that man pointed his gun at Dad's head," said Bobby Kuhel, "I just saw red. I didn't know I fired twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Accident | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

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