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Word: deserting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independents, and has two large, comfortably furnished lounges, with six smaller ones scattered throughout the building. It has the antiseptic appearance and smell of a hospital, and its brick structure and sparse courtyards make it look like an old geometric oasis in the middle of a broad desert. It has parties...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...sighed, carefully finished off the last of his desert, stood up, slipped, fell, and smashed into tiny fragments...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Flameproof | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

Today at 68, Yardley still plays tight, winning poker. He is so tough a competitor that even before he published his book, friends at the National Press Club in Washington would desert his table and jump to another game the minute they saw a chance. Now that his warning to suckers is in circulation, he is finding it hard to get anybody to take a hand in a friendly little game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One of a Kind | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there never was anything for you to fight for"; resists until one day, in flight before the American advance, he begs for food at a concentration camp, and sees at last that, in effect if not in intention, he is no better than the brute who runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

This novel keeps the reader in suspense at the end of every chapter-waiting for the soap commercial. Can Molly Jorgenson and Johnny Hunter, teen-age lovers and troubled children of divorce, find lasting happiness by racing the stork to the altar? Will Johnny's mother Sylvia desert her alcoholic husband, with his blue-blood pedigree and red-ink bank balance, for an adulterous affair with Molly's self-made millionaire father? Is life a game of second chance or an inescapably heir-conditioned nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Typewriter Tycoon | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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