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Word: derelicts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albion denied that Carlsen stayed aboard merely to prevent the ship from becoming a "derelict" whose cargo can be claimed by either the salvager or anyone who cares to board it. If the shipping line had announced its intention to salvage the Flying Enterprise, he asserted, the ship would not have become a "derelict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lauds Carlsen's Exploit | 1/11/1952 | See Source »

Decision Before Dawn mirrors these moods and mentalities in some excellent German players, notably Hildegarde Neff as a lonely derelict of war who has sunk into prostitution, O. E. Hasse as a colonel sternly loyal to his professional creed, Wilfried Seyfert as a virulent SS man. Apart from U.S. occupation troops cast as wartime G.I.'s, the only Americans in the film are Gary Merrill and Richard Base-hart, whose roles as U.S. intelligence officers put them in support of a fine performance by Viennese Actor Werner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...world. It has broken down the barriers between race and color and environment and cultural background. To the great surgeon with the patient on the operating table it is of secondary importance whether it is a cousin of his wife or the sister of an Oriental potentate or the derelict found by the police the night before...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...world. It has broken down the barriers between race and color and environment and cultural background. To the great surgeon with the patient on the operating table it is of secondary importance whether it is a cousin of his wife or the sister of an Oriental potentate or the derelict found by the police the night before...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...live and not exist . . . willing to work, learn and give loyalty . . . possessors of keen sense of humor (at present untaxed)." Burleigh served 5½ years overseas in the British army, came home to find his house blitzed and jobs scarce. "It seemed that in this country I was considered derelict because I was over 40." He went into business for himself, then became a salesman but didn't make it, finally took the best job he could find, as security officer guarding some war office buildings. One day when the family was sitting at lunch, he burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fed Up | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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