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Word: heros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardly recognizable as such, since it was filmed in black & white against a landscape not even remotely resembling a Grand National Park. Its story is peopled mostly by quiet, plausible characters who engage in no horsy heroics and in only one shooting fracas. In fact, its hero (Robert Sterling) openly confesses to a distaste for manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...living,giant,all,in,little,pieces, Out, of,death's,kingdom,into,shine- My, dark,hero, out, of, death's,answers, My, deep,hero, out, of,death's,mirrors: My,living,brilliant,my,living,garnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Danger, Poet at Work | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Still British as Unionists rolled up a 3-to-l majority in House of Commons over Republican Catholics. 48. U.S. sailors desecrating a hero's statue here were almost lynched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...several million other Palooka fans, who follow the daily adventures of their comic-strip hero in 665 U.S. newspapers and 125 foreign ones, Heavyweight Champion Palooka's wedding to Cheese Heiress Ann Howe will be the marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. & Mrs. Palooka | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...romance ever traveled a rockier road. Among the bumps: Joe's impulsive enlistment in the Foreign Legion (it took President Roosevelt's appearance in the strip to get him out), his six years as a private in the U.S. Army (which made Palooka the hero of numerous recruiting posters), Ann's airplane crash in Wyoming (40,000 fans flooded Fisher with anxious inquiries) and her subsequent amnesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. & Mrs. Palooka | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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