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Word: dreadfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most American comedies are rubbish; The Man Who Came to Dinner is not. Most productions of American comedies are dreadful; this one is not.

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

L'Aiuola moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Burnt Flower-Bed | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

The Communists insisted they would not leave office until their term is up in 1962. But nervously, Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiri-pad urged Prime Minister Nehru ("a good man") to visit Kerala and see the dreadful things his Congress Party was doing. Said the local Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Gandhi Technique | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

The Criminal Kiss. Within 24 hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: English Justice | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

In Britain, Virginia-born Lady Astor turned So, practiced some golf shots, fired some verbal salvos to prove that her mind and tongue are keen as ever. On British politics: "I advise Tories to vote Tory. Socialism won't work unless you love your neighbors. I find that so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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