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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Financially speaking, of course, Mr. Hammerstein and his friends can't do it again: Flower Drum Song is already sold out solid for its four and a half weeks in Boston, and promises to do correspondingly well in New York. But from the aesthetic stand-point, Oliver Smith's pretty sets, some of Carol Haney's choreography, and a few nice songs and pleasant performances are the only silky spots on a lavishly gilded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flower Drum Song | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...call her charming. Pat Suzuki as her brassy rival has an absolutely A-number-1 smile, and a pretty good figure too. Her singing will be fun when she learns how much volume she needs to fill the house. Ed Kenney plays the handsome hero with whom half of Chinatown is in love; he sings okay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flower Drum Song | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...time of great unrest and movement all across the land, and I was of it and in it and on it and with it. My sonnet was half finished; my soul was a traffic light turning from red to green. It was the time, and I packed a toothbrush and a comb and a cold can of Schaefer beer, and I went to my mother's side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE HIGHWAY | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

...points means 40 touchdowns, give or take a few. That's an average of one score every minute and a half. Why, a game between Harvard and the so-called "best team" from Louisiana would prove the biggest bore since Adams House beat Notre Dame two years ago, 311-6. They might even have to put in the Stadium peanut-vendors to keep the score down...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/28/1958 | See Source »

Three groups of the resource leaders will then discuss "Requirements of a Dynamic American Foreign Policy," "The Challenge of Soviet Education," and "Religion and Freedom in the U.S.S.R." in separate one and one-half hour sessions on Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fellowship Plans Talks on Russia | 10/28/1958 | See Source »

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