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Word: ditto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villain (Stanley Baker) across the polar floes. As a sort of wrong-way Simon Legree who munches Saltines as malevolently as if they were human bones. Actor Baker is good for some laughs, but by the time he is stowed in the Deepfreeze, many moviegoers will sigh a heartfelt ditto to Ladd's last line: "Come on; it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Whoever thought a Lucy Stoner would be so being girlishly called a sensitive as "newshen" Jane [TIME, Grant Letters, about Dec. 21]? Newshen is one of the cleverest coined words. Short, flattering. To adults it connotes a plump, toothsome chick (no newspaperwoman I ever saw) in fine, glossy feathers (ditto). Stepping high and daintily, she delicately picks the wheat from the chaff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...nose appears to be shrinking. F) Ditto ears, G) If Conant's is any indication of a trend, we may expect a breeder grin. B) The chin, in the American male, seems to be diminishing. There many be little or none of this. 1) Dress is, of course, becoming less and less formal. If may be that tirelessness and colorlessness will be the order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taylor-Made President | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...newsmen got a pleasant surprise: the first pages of the censored transcript began to come through. Stenographers sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators. They quickly turned out copies for 56 papers and news agencies (including Russia's Tass), which had ordered the transcript at 12½? a page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trial by Transcript | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Naturals. In Minneapolis, police arrested Henry Bad Boy for being drunk & disorderly. In Delphos, Ohio, the Delphos Herald noted that twins had been born to Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Ditto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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