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Word: deadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong southwest wind made playing conditions almost impossible as the team against the gale invariably had to go on the defensive. Several times, a player would get a good kick off into the wind, only to watch it come to a dead stop in mid air and fall about ten feet from where it was kicked...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Soccer Varsity Defeats Underdog Eli Team, 1-0 | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...suddenly he is dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten North Frederick in the Mysterious East | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...movie was made on vacation as well as location, and this shows, much to the film's advantage. The plot is a crazy hopscotch around the Mediterranean, with side-jumps into subplots that pull up short in dead ends. The picture begins with a DeSica-like village square scene--a cacaphonous little brass band and a crowd through which are led four caricature desperadoes in handcuffs. They are Bogie's conspirators in an African uranium swindle. The movie flashes back to explain the scene. The explanation is the movie proper. It involves the characters in a voyage on a terrifically...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Beat the Devil | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...course, if you don't keep moving, you're dead,' a dropforge developing engineer remarked. "I won't speculate on what's on their mind for me--but a company doesn't spend all this money on a man if they don't intend to do something with...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Organization Man Goes To College | 11/12/1958 | See Source »

...Catholic Action and the Demo-Christian Party, Cardinal Roncalli won the admiration of many a Venetian leftist for his progressive outlook. He shocked conservatives by proposing that some marble panels be removed from the interior of St. Mark's to give worshipers a better view, but he was dead against a proposal to set up gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens. They can come dressed in that modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Choose John . . . | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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