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Word: denly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their long voyage home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Over the Fence | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...bissel [i.e., a little] in the mood" have crept into the Viennese vernacular. Fruit juices, powdered coffee and Coca-Cola from American PXs are standard in the Viennese way of life. Austrian counterparts of American bobby-soxers are singing such ditties as Kaugummi oder Ich muss den Johnny kiissen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Bells of St. Stephen's | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Adapted by Adolph Green and Betty Com den from their own stage hit of 1944, On the Town is still the story of three sailors on a 24-hour fling in Manhattan. Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) quickly team up with a pretty man-eating cab driver (Betty Garrett) and a man-crazy anthropology student (Ann Miller). Meanwhile, Gabey (Actor-Director Kelly) scours the town looking for his ideal: Miss Turnstiles (Vera-Ellen), the girl-of-the-month on the subway posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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