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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good two score of the guests remarked to Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross that if Harry Truman carried on his campaign with that kind of effectiveness, "he'll be a hard guy to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: You Should Have Heard Him | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...ring after nine months of exile. Banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer, banned in Illinois and 13 other states as a wartime deserter, he had gone to the Washington boxing commission and explained that business about being AWOL: "Do I look like the kinda guy who'd duck a fight? They put me to work pickin' up cigarette butts and orange peels at Fort Dix. I wish to God now I picked 'em up." Rocky promised to give all but one dollar of his earnings to charity, if they would just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Connie Smythe could hardly complain about rough hockey. He tells his Maple Leafs: "If you don't try, you don't make mistakes. And the guy who doesn't make mistakes is not worth a damn." Smythe's definition of a mistake is being clapped into the penalty box. His Maple Leafs, the rowdiest team on ice, last year broke a National Hockey League record by spending 669 minutes in the penalty box, and broke their own record again this season-by nearly 100 minutes. The Leafs also happen to be about the best hockey team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Springtime in Boston Garden | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...show closed with Shorty soliloquizing: "I guess that's what they call experience. Gettin' your teeth kicked in like that by a guy you've always looked up to. Now I'm really learning what life is like. . . . Well, nuts to 'em all. I can play it rough if that's the way they want it. And it looks from here like it's gonna be rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Shorty | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...André has already acquired the occupational disease of Hollywood composers: a hurt attitude at the way other composers scorn them. Says he: "They don't realize what it is to compose 82 seconds of music for a guy falling downstairs&3151;when you have to have a drum when he hits the fourth step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Sink to Success | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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