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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anguish from Riviera hotelkeepers, who estimate tourist traffic is already off 75%. Housewives caught the panic, and driven by the memory of what items were scarce in World War II, stripped shops of soap, candles, rice, canned goods and sugar (though France actually has a sugar surplus). Premier Guy Mollet pleaded for calm and discipline, scolded: "During the last few days, a new wave of fear seems to have broken over part of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wave of Fear | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Child of Fortune (by Guy Bolton) derives from one of the most spacious and complex of all Henry James's novels, The Wings of the Dove. That alone may explain why the most recent of James's stage adaptations-which like the best of them might also have been called The Heiress-is among the most unsatisfactory. It is not so much that Adapter Bolton has violated James's novel (although he has made a host of small changes that reduce the book's great cumulative impact to emotional small change); it is much more that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Gordy. But that was about all. Making the best of a bad situation, Coach Wyatt worked hard with his second-stringers, tried to build a club that could hold off the opposition while his stars caught their breath. His philosophy was disarmingly simple: "We play to keep the other guys bottled up down deep and watch their mistakes. Then, when you get a break, you've only got a short way to go to score. It beats marching down the field on your own. Let the other guy give you a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To the Top of the List | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Queen of England." Wrapping his fingers around a floor microphone, Mollet shouted: "Never forget that if we are able to sit on these benches and speak as free men it is because from 1940 to 1941 the British held on alone." Every Deputy but the Poujadists and Communists gave Guy Mollet a standing ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: From the Outside | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Gill-sized Author Capote-5 ft. 4 in., 122 Ibs. -is an accomplished judo artist, is proud of his ability to outwrestle Screen Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home for Dead Cats | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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