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Word: dotes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of project-at once heartwarming, over-organized and unabashedly flamboyant-that Americans dote on. The townspeople of New Brunswick, NJ. had set out to build a home for 23-year-old ex-Marine Robert William Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs when he was hit by a Japanese bullet on Okinawa. It was just like an old-fashioned house-raising bee, except that it took place in the age of the assembly line and the publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: House-Raising | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...best single rule for TV fashions is neutrality. The whole thing hits hardest at women who dote on some shades of red -and at TV engineers who would like to show the girls in orange-red bathing suits. In television's strange alchemy, this shade simply disappears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Patterns, Please | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...overblown eloquence of gesture and voice in tragic opera and the grim melo-naturalism of a modern police state are shrewdly used to enhance each other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Clevelanders respect the memory of Founder Moses for something else: he was the first man with a Cleveland Plan-and Clevelanders dote on Cleveland plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES .& STATES: Cleveland's Planners | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Commander Collins' advice to un-single men, "Red" Schutte is horning in on our very own territory. Fifty men in the second swimming group can testify that a certain red-headed JCC (Junior Cadence Caller) refers to him constantly as her "Superman". We recommend leniency in this case, however, Dote, the redhead is not quite five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

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