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Word: flair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michelangelo, Murillo, Tintoretto, Greuze, Utrillo, Renoir, Fragonard, Matisse, And the Brueghels, pére et fils, Monet, Manet, Turner, Giotto, Dufy, Degas, Titian, Watteau, From Da Vinci to The Greek Each one had his own technique. Artzy's trademark is his flair For the isolated hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...find some other flair? After a TIME story mentioning the caloric content of modern bread, Reader R. C. Dewey of Arcadia, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Francisco Chronicle, Bernice Freeman, 48, in her spare time once edited a weekly in nearby San Rafael. On her staff was an amiable cub reporter named George Boles. "George didn't turn out to be a very good reporter," she recalls, "but he had a flair for excitement and wrote the most marvelous stories. Only we couldn't print them-libel, you know." So his career as a reporter was short. When Bernice Freeman gave up the weekly job and began devoting all her time to the Chronicle, George fell into the habit of calling her from time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Beat for Grandma | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...federation of the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. Sir Godfrey adjusted his spectacles, tuned in his hearing aid and almost shouted his oath of allegiance to the Crown. For Sir Godfrey, a lively and sure-handed surgeon with a flair for colonial politics, a 30-year dream had come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: New State | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...physical shape, thanks to Coach Harry Hopman's strict meat-and-sleep training rules, the Australians nonetheless sometimes seemed mentally over-wound, as if their play had become work. Facing powerful Lew Hoad, whose service is one of the fastest in amateur tennis, Vic Seixas showed the same flair for court tactics he demonstrated this year at Wimbledon. It was a net-rushing struggle, but in the end Seixas won in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. That left it up to Ken Rosewall to prevent the first all-American finals in the National since 1950. Armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Melbourne Preview? | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

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