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Word: fistfight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lust for Gold (Columbia) is a feeble way to describe this movie's gargantuan appetite for adventure. In 90 minutes it wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

High point of the debate came when aged (87) ex-Premier Orlando charged the Government with "a lust for servitude," thus throwing the sweltering chamber into screaming uproar. Meanwhile, Neo-Fascist Emilio Patrissi and Deputy Paolo Treves, a Saragattian Socialist, after a fistfight in the corridor, scheduled a duel the next day. Said Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "What counts most is that Italy gives a clear, honest and unreserved demonstration to walk the path of sacrifice toward a new dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Dignity | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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