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Word: dead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observer of M.S.I.'s seance remarked indelicately: "Well, you can't raise the dead without raising a smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Legion of Sorrow | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...ranch on the range isn't likely to find Much use for a cowboy who's dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Knock-Out Campaign | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Laugh Factory | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Blots | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate attempt to warn their comrades, but the squadristi shot Maciste dead and wounded Ugo. He eluded them and made his way back to the Via del Corno, where he collapsed near the apartment door of the street's most curious personality, the Signora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian Alley | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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