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Word: deadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brother screamed at Arab brother last week in a way that suggested that Arab brotherhood is a sometime thing. In Cairo, President Nasser's marchers swung dead rats and dogs from mock gallows to show their hate for Premier Kassem and his Iraqi Communist allies. In Baghdad, Kassem supporters plastered the city with portraits of President Nasser's grinning countenance superimposed on pictures of donkeys, hyenas and dancing girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Double Trouble | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...another naked body by the heels. An onlooker rushed to the body, emasculated it. By the fourth day, when government patrols began clearing away the scores of burned-out cars and trucks, a witness counted 45 naked, mutilated bodies hanging from lampposts, bus-stop shelters and bridges. Total estimated dead: at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Revolt That Failed | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...close to parody, but the wonder is that Williams should be so inept at imitating himself. The sex violence, the perfumed decay, the hacking domestic quarrels, the dirge of fear and self-pity, the characters who dangle in neurotic limbo-all are present-but only like so many dramatic dead cats on a cold tin roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Home-Town Morals (after Ralls moviegoers traveled 32 miles to Lubbock to see a Brigitte Bardot movie): "They wouldn't be caught dead attending it in Ralls. Rallsites take their movies like they take their liquor-out of town. That way, nobody gets contaminated and all the kids remain vestal virgins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joiner's Rejoinders | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...friend's car just in time to witness a painfully accurate re-creation of the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. With Curtis and Lemmon cowering in a corner, Mobster George Raft and his henchmen line seven men against the wall and machine-gun them dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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