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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guilty Flee. In Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. R. J. Barnhoft was arrested for drunkenness when she drove into a service station dragging a driverless pickup truck by the rear bumper of her car, and whispered darkly to the attendant: "I wish you'd check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Staff Sherman Adams had his listeners hanging on every syllable as he said that the very first time he saw the President after the attack, Ike told him: "If the doctors here didn't tell me differently, I would think this heart attack belonged to some other guy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: If He Feels He's Able | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...also quick to convert night-school theory into practical business use. Two department-store buyers who were moaning about discount-house competition in Marx's office one day were flabbergasted when the toymaker interrupted them: "It's like this guy Toynbee says. It's a question of challenge and response. These discount houses are the challenge that is going to make department stores into merchants again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...quite scored a national success. He is still bitter about Hollywood, which kept him dangling for nearly a decade: "When I did work in pictures, I was always Blinky, the hero's best friend. I was the one in the last reel who tells Betty Grable that the guy really loves her." Phil began to circle cautiously around television a year ago. NBC offered to star him in some Spectaculars, but he refused: "So you make a big hit in a Spectacular - the next day you're the forgotten man. I wanted a steady job and a steady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Army Game | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. Oldfashioned, perhaps, but indestructible (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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