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Word: heather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projected by Laurence Harvey as the questionable hero and Simone Signoret as his worldly and dispirited mentor. Both make the most of their important relationship, reacting to each other with a sensitivity that escapes the impersonality of the screen. Their love affair seems dramatically as well as thematically plausible. Heather Sears, cast as the daughter of the local power, employs her bland manner with purpose. Her pleasant, but empty face, and her unobtrusiveness, admirably heighten her own meaningless relationship to Harvey. Knowing that her role is one of the pawn, she has enough sense not to turn it into...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: Room at the Top | 10/8/1959 | See Source »

Next day the President's trip took him to Aberdeen's Dyce Airport, thence to Balmoral Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II was waiting. It was a drizzly day. The fragrance was on the heather. Fat Black Angus cattle grazed on the rolling hills. Trout-filled streams gurgled cheerfully. U.S. reporters rolling out into the Highlands with the President and Prince Philip, who had met him, were surprised that so few Scotsmen wore kilts. But when they got to the gates of royal Balmoral, the Americans got the full treatment-bagpipes howling fiendishly, Royal Highland Fusiliers crashing to attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Is What I Want to Do | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...town hall and dreams the usual "clerk's dream" of sports "cars, town houses, Riviera villas, linen sheets-and women who look right in them. "I'm going to have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears) of one of the richest men in town. "You know, Susan," he tells her, "you're beautiful," and sighs with carefully rehearsed despair that she is "a dear kipper" -too dear for the working-class likes of him. But when he begins to mumble modestly about his sufferings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 25, the Chief Justice's youngest daughter, who recovered from a severe polio attack eight years ago, and Stuart Brien, M.D., 36, Beverly Hills obstetrician and gynecologist: their second child, first daughter, Earl Warren's eighth grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Heather. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...estate, discomfitedly said: "If he was going to leave me the baby, he should have given me a perambulator to put it in." Home after ten years of self-exile, he set up temporary digs in an unheated room (built by his father for a farm employee) at Heather Cottage, Churt, Surrey, planned to scrape up a few guineas by turning up at the House of Lords, where peers in attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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