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Word: globs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inner rhythm that never fails." says Director Erwin Piscator; and Lewis speaks of "a natural dangerousness and unpredictability that's always exciting in the theater"All these qualities, his friends say, are symptoms of an almost frighteningly susceptible nature. "He's like a glob of the yeast of creation," says one. He picked up a working knowledge of French and Spanish in a matter of days. He can imitate someone precisely after watching him for two minutes. He almost never answers the phone in his own voice, usually convinces the caller that he is someone else. His sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Wayne Morse is about the biggest egotistical glob of worthlessness in the Senate's pot today, for my money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...leaves or branches. At his side lay a 7.62-mm. Russian rifle, roughly similar to the U.S. Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle. The dead man's pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...base of the Winsor formula is still a viscous glob of sex. In Amber, it was diluted in a little English history. In Star Money, it is stirred into the well-publicized life of the author herself. That is not to say that Star Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Kathleen | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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