Search Details

Word: huntin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Backbencher Tory Nicolson publicly criticized Sir Anthony Eden's Suez invasion. Outraged, local Tory leaders formally forbade members of the local party to have any contact with him, and pointedly announced that in the next election, Bournemouth East's Tory candidate would be Major James Friend -a huntin' and shootin' Staffordshire squire given to sweeping reflections on Britain's imperial glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Randolph's Raid | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...yank at the heartstrings. In his latest, Goodbye, My Lady, the yanking is continuous. His hero is Skeeter, a likable 14-year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Li'l OId Tearjerker | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...They's more'n just "an eyeful"!) Maybe some folks don't like how he does it. It's noisy, smelly business. But until some one come 'long an gifts them skunks good--an' gits 'em gooder'n he does--I'm fer lettin' Joe keep right on a-huntin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...than he was when he was pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals in the '30s 39-year-old Jay Hanna Dean is no radio & TV novice. His broadcasts of St. Louis ball games during the past nine years have put him in a position to spend each winter "huntin', fishin', and doin' nothin'." But his new job with the Yankees, over Du Mont's New York television station WABD, marks the first time he has had to handle commercials (Ballantine beer and Philip Morris cigarettes). "Some words are pretty doggone hard-if I cain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing, Swanged, Swunged | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next