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Word: fests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate fest. The Lineup (starring Tom Tully and Warner Anderson) gets its material from the San Francisco police files, and that is where last week's story of an actor with a leaning toward armed robbery and mystifying disguises ought to remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...monsoon/ If things get any worse, we'll be fishes soon" gurgled Eliot Hall last night, to win Radcliffe's annual Song-Fest. The contest was originally scheduled for the Quad, but Eliot prognosticators had the only slickers and umbrellas in the crowd, so it was moved into Cabot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Conjures Rain In Soggy Song-Feast | 10/25/1955 | See Source »

Apathetic Radcliffe goes Middle-Western this evening with a great big spirited song fest on the porch of Cabot Hall. The raucous noises start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Dormitories to Hold Raucous Sing-'em-up on Quad | 11/19/1953 | See Source »

...relations with Moscow were desirable. Then, as if to reassure the Western powers that he was not going to collapse in Moscow's arms, he heaped praise on the U.S., Britain and even France for help to his country during the war, and angrily denied that any love fest with the Cominform Communists was in sight. "On the frontier still," he said, "their rifles are shooting our guards. Their press is slandering us. If the U.S.S.R. has softened its propaganda, that is not enough for our country to change its attitude . . . Any changes must be demonstrated by deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Two-Faced Tito | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...life. He gathers nightly with other men in a big conical ceremonial house to chew coca leaves and listen to the mama extoll the merits of inactivity and incuriosity, the Kogi ideals. The drug dispels the physical and sexual hunger that the Kogi man despises; at his nightly talk fest, he is content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Man's World | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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