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Word: deadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final count was 755½ for Kefanver and 589 for Kennedy, who appeared in time to make the motion for Kefauver's nomination by acclamation. Estes Kefauver ambled onto the platform to express his gratitude. He was half dead from his strenuous exertions, but it made little difference in his appearance. Waving his hands and grinning broadly, he shone all over with delight at finally winning the place−or almost the place−on the national ticket that he had been working hard for lo those four long years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wide-Open Winner | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...Alesandro: Tydings 90% dead is better than Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Maneuvers in Maryland | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...were so maudlin about his impending doom. Now in a wheelchair as a victim of an incurable paralytic disease, Author Cary was astonishingly sanguine over his fate: "I'm not being sentimental about it. I'm still alive and I can still work, and I might be dead anyway ... I don't think I'm going to die tomorrow. Perhaps in five or seven years, the doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...masterpieces through too much cleaning. Among them: pictures by Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Velásquez, and even Leonardo's great Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo's figures, wrote one angry correspondent, "are now bathed in a light only seen on the faces of the dead; or the neon lighting of a coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Fashion for Flaying | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...plot. But no! Ten-year-old Kevin Coughlin, who has been reading like crazy up to this point, now abhors books and concludes that Bette is a mean old witch. He has nightmares. He listens for the first time to his sub-moronic father. He cuts Bette dead on the street. He even sneaks into the library in the dead of night and sets it on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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