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Word: glorious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strauss' opera. In it most of the virtues and vices of "The Marriage of Figaro" are reversed. There is little of Strauss' music and a lot of good acting. The orange-tinted film is the most unusual part of the movie. If it's Germany's answer to glorious Technicolor, Hollywood has nothing to worry about in that department...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Wouldn't it be grand and glorious if some of pur RFC employees thought as much of their personal principles as they do of their personal principals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...Korea, there is a possibility that the parallel or a reasonable facsimile thereof will be formalized again with barbed wire and armed patrols. Though both the U.N. and the Communists are convinced the line should go, they disagree on where it should go, and even one of MacArthur's glorious gestures is not sufficient to solve the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Line That Failed | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

...took over, the Pentagon decided to convert the 82nd into one of the first two U.S. airborne divisions. To show his men what paratrooping might be like, Ridgway, who had no particular airborne qualifications, hied himself to Fort Benning to make a parachute jump. "It was the most glorious feeling in the world," he told the dubious infantrymen. "You feel like the lord of creation floating way up above the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: The Airborne Grenadier | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...ardor in celebrating the birthday of the King of the Beloved Valley of the Nile, there has been celebrated, in the Grace and under the protection of God, the engagement of His Majesty, King Farouk I, and an exquisite flower of Egyptian society, descendant of an illustrious and glorious family, Mlle. Narriman Sadek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: By the Grace of God | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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