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Word: gun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assorted millions who fought for its freedoms. And in respect for all those who died in that service, the Unknowns were given burial services by three chaplains, in Latin by the Roman Catholic, English by the Protestant and Hebrew by the Jew. After the boom of a final 21-gun salute, and the rattle of three volleys of rifle fire, the haunting call of Taps echoed across Arlington's markers and across the Potomac as the last solemn note of a day of communion among patriots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Adventure of War | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been hit in the first shooting; other Israelis crawling up to rescue them appeared to be pinned down among the rocks and scrub cypress trees by continuing machine gun and rifle fire. At 4 o'clock, with a white truce flag in his hand and a U. N. observer carrying a walkie-talkie behind him, Flint moved to the flat top of Mount Scopus. At 4:50 General von Horn's headquarters received word from Flint: "Evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Death on Mount Scopus | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Near Lumet, Susskind, scribbled notes on weak spots ("Need more sex chemistry between Ann and Willie . . . Can't see the gun in the assassination scene"). The hours dissolved in one, two, three rehearsals. Lines were furiously added and subtracted, camera shots sharpened. "Suddenly it's 9 o'clock," says Susskind, "and you can't go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bring 'Em Back Alive | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...underestimate McGraw, but all women smile seductively at him. He hits it off fine with most cops, who overlook his occasional infractions in the line of duty. The most human of all TV's hireling snoopers, McGraw has sometimes mistaken a crook's pocketed finger for a gun, has dived prudently for cover when a real equalizer was pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Snoopers | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Sympathy. ¶ Plato Skouras, 28, son of 20th Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, formed an independent company three years ago with his brother, Spyros S. Skouras, 34. CJ Sam Goldwyn Jr., 31, son of Old Guard Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, 73, has independently produced Man with the Gun, The Shark fighters, and the soon-to-be-released The Proud Rebel. ¶ Charles Chaplin Jr., 32, and his nine-months-younger brother Sydney appeared with their father in Limelight, have duckwalked away on their own: Sydney plays opposite Judy Holliday in Broadway's Bells Are Ringing; Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Second Generation | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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