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Word: hoariest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What this elaborate training system accomplishes is 1) the preservation of a great Russian dance tradition and 2) the dazzling acrobatic skill and cheerful dedication that somehow bring conviction to even the hoariest ballet plots. What the Russians' training does not give them is new ideas; their great weakness is oldfashioned, unimaginative choreography and a concentration on emotional music, uncomplicated stories and characterizations of line-drawn simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 2 Pushechnaya Street | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

After a long overdue medical checkup, some of the hoariest traditions of sport were declared no better than a hypochondriac's fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Needs Steaks? | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...winning a cha-cha contest. As a travelogue, Around the World is at least as spectacular as anything Cinerama has slapped together. The customer is offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th century would cheerfully have given its right sideburn to see: Queen Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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