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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than 36 hours later, about 800 Air Forcemen and their families crowded into the Dyess base theater. Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, 23, one eye bandaged and the other kept closed against the bright lights, stepped out on the platform with his wife. He had performed far above and beyond the call of duty. And General Tom Power, boss of the Strategic Air Command, pinned a medal on Obie's chest. It was the Distinguished Flying Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: How Obie Won His Medal | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Oldtime Cinemactress Corinne Griffith, 58, in her heyday the eye-filling "orchid lady of the screen," revealed that the bloom was off her 22-year marriage to garrulous George Preston Marshall, onetime Washington laundryman and owner of the Redskins pro football team. Corinne, a West Coast realtor, will file for divorce, told a reporter: "There is no marital bliss in being 3,000 miles apart. And as hard as I tried, I just couldn't learn to play football." Promoter Marshall, for once, had no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...mother of us all, to appease the powers that really be, has sent many of her innocent babes scurrying to the Business School parking lot, there to deposit their passion wagons under the watchful and paternal eye of six-gun justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lead Kindly Light | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

With a wary eye cast over his shoulder at the M.I.T. loss two weeks ago, varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro claimed yesterday that "strange things can happen." Unless things are very strange indeed, however, the Crimson will defeat a rather weak Tufts varsity this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Will Face Tufts | 5/7/1958 | See Source »

...police records on Beynon, but all he could dig up was a traffic violation. Explained Williams: "It's normal business practice for me to find out all I can about the man I'm dealing with." Yet he admitted that Freeport had never before hired a private eye to track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Plugged Nickel | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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