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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to chip steadily away at the male world several hundred yards down Garden Street. The extent of the damage, however, did not become apparent until just after the war, when the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences became the Radcliffe faculty. Of course, cries of astonishment were heard all around, but it was too late; Harvard, oldest and proudest bastion of male education, had fallen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

...promise" implies a homosexual guarantee. Mannie says Chopper had agreed to go on a fishing trip with him and Mannie wants the promise honored. They go to bed, separately, a figure is seen spying on Chopper abed with his wife Joanna, and the family's cat, heard screeching, is subsequently knifed "in a certain place." Big he-man Chopper advocates locking all the windows and doors, and I don't blame...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Advocate | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

...ladies. In the incisive opening chorus and the stirring chorale at the work's close, the small chorus proved to be simply too small. One can appreciate Harbison's attempt to scale down a reading of a Bach cantata but, nonetheless, the chorus must be large enough to be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bach Society Concert | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

...wags were tailing the top dog. As a triple, the Stooges clowned their way through a seemingly endless series of quickie flickies-most of them on a par with the early Punchdrunk, which told of a waiter, a prizefighter at heart, who wrecked the joint every time he heard Pop Goes the Weasel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Refinished Antiques | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Ever Heard? Baron Clements saw his first bullfight when he was ten, and "right then I decided that what I wanted to do most was fight bulls." Writing in the sixth grade on his life's ambition, he drew an F-minus and a stern note from his teacher: "Baron, I expect you to stay in this afternoon and write a reasonable theme. Who ever heard of people these days being bullfighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Matador from Texas | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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