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Word: dog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...above the full-volume records from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The party, celebrating the departure of a University of Texas coed who had flunked out, had begun in midafternoon some three hours earlier. In one corner, four tipsily serious coeds tried to revive a passed-out couple with more salty dog (a mixture of gin, grapefruit juice and salt). About 10 p.m., a brunette bounded on to the coffee table, in a limited striptease. At 2 a.m., when the party broke up, one carload of youngsters decided to take off on a two-day drive into Mexico (they got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Behave Yourself tries to get laughs out of mother-in-law jokes, a trained dog, a man's frustrated efforts to go to bed with his wife, and the innocent, harried involvement of a young couple (Farley Granger and Shelley Winters) bedeviled by comic thieves, murderers and cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pratfalls & Tears | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Hard work and an oldtime trouper's skill enable this comedian to be top dog in the new musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...dog story on Page One of Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin looked as harmless as a puppy: the Stanford Research Institute wanted to rent ten acres of city-owned land to train Army dogs in spotting land mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Secret Dogs of War | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...city's Public Utilities Commission; the institute's rental request was listed on the commission's mimeographed calendar, open for public inspection. After the story was in print, the Bulletin called the institute (which is independent of Stanford University) for more facts, was told that the dog project was a military secret. The institute asked City Editor Jack McDowell to kill the story. Why, then, asked McDowell, hadn't the papers been warned that the project was classified? Answered an institute spokesman: "Oh, we couldn't do that. It would be a breach of security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Secret Dogs of War | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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