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Word: distraughtly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four unfavorable reviews by Hague critics and five favorable reviews by Amsterdam critics. The home and office telephone numbers of the Hague critics were printed, and readers who disagreed with them were respectfully urged to call up the critics and discuss the matter. By week's end one distraught Hague critic, with a ringing in his ear, was planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above the others, crooning pearly high notes here, dropping into gutty dramatic tones there. She sang the great second-act aria, Vissi d'arte (rendered in English as "Love of beauty") with a flair worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: TV Tosca | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Seven Brothers. The commissioners moved on, and friends comforted distraught Luca Eller with assurances that the border was still only provisional and might yet be rectified with small adjustments. (As a matter of fact, the agreement specifically provides against cutting houses in two.) Meanwhile, Luca Eller and family sadly set to moving as much furniture as they could into the Italian side of their internationalized farm house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Line | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Memorial Hall bell tower, stretched her arms after a long sleep and decided it was time for a trial spin on her broomstick to get in shape for Halloween. Skirting Lowell House, a chance breeze blew her into an open window. As she recovered her balance, a distraught young man leaped to his feet, hastily brushing la little pile of dirt under the rug with his hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toil and Trouble | 10/22/1954 | See Source »

...anyone who ever pulled a distraught Yalie from the very foundation of a post, to anyone who raced down on the field after seeing Harvard upset Army 22 to 21 there were more than four quarters in a football game, and the post game battle of the goal posts was sometimes as important and often as exciting as the 60 minutes just completed...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Goalposts: Sic Transit Gloria | 9/28/1954 | See Source »

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