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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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That took the heart out of the Sturgis crowd. It was reduced to muttering about "police brutality." That night-under the watchful eyes of a detail of troopers-the local White Citizens League rallied, heard prayerful thanks because "God did not cross us with a sea gull or a crow." It was all just so much noise. Next morning Sturgis was as quiet as if it had always had an integrated school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strong Hand in Kentucky | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...known that he had asked U.S. intelligence agencies to find out who was the Mr. X behind the Kremlin's increased cleverness in foreign affairs (the provisional answer: some of the moves bear evidence that the shrewd little Armenian, Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, is being heard-see COVER STORY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Punch & Counterpunch | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts. Another strong possibility: De Long platforms as offshore launching pads for antiaircraft missiles. Says a De Long executive: "Almost every week somebody who has heard about our platforms calls up and suggests a new application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Islands to Order | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience was between 15 and 30, and I knew that the movies that were grossing well were horror or rock-'n'-roll films. So I decided to combine them with an exploitation title. You don't need big names." You don't need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shock Around the Clock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rock & Roil | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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