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Word: galle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward G. Robinson was sitting idly around Hollywood with that wonderfully rubbery sneer of a face, so a couple of moviemakers had the gall to divide Little Caesar into two crumby parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Caesar's Busy Days | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

They thus bested the Northern city bosses: Tammany Hall's Carmine DeSapio, Chicago's Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: New Chairman | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...first time since losing his appendix and rebellious gall bladder (TIME, June 28), resilient Harry Truman left his bed for the length of a lunch in a Kansas City hospital, drew himself up to a table and with gusto devoured a square meal. Near by lay a get-well-quick wire from Washington, signed by two White House visitors, old British friends of Truman's: Winston and Anthony. While his obituaries were being filed away for another day, Truman was finding out that even some of his old enemies seemed happy about his recovery: the Chicago Tribune, which barked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Good trouper though he is, he never made it. During the first act, grimacing in pain from what he thought was acute indigestion, he left the theater. Twenty-seven hours later, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, relieved Harry Truman of a red-hot appendix and a gangrenous gall bladder. Practically bouncing off the operating table, Truman, in "excellent" condition, was a good bet to hit the sawdust trail again soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...York to see him flattened by Rocky Marciano, and home to Seattle to watch him taking a licking from British Heavyweight Champion Don Cockell. A lesser man might have given up. Hurley was undaunted. Last month he arrived in London with Matthews in tow, and announced with infinite gall that his tabby could knock over Cockell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Talker | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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