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Word: hyphens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line, he estimates whether the next word will fit the remaining space. If it is a little too short, he fattens the line by adding spacers between preceding words or letters. When the next word is too long, he cuts it in two and adds a hyphen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Printing a Dream | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...tender, amusing, pathetic fable about a wildly incompatible man and woman who come together to pool their emotional losses. Caesario Grimaldi (Anthony Quinn) is an Italian-American contractor, as coarse and gravelly as raw concrete. Pamela Pew-Pickett (Margaret Leighton) is as properly British as the hyphen in her name. When they meet by appointment in a Rockefeller Center restaurant, he sloshes through double Scotches and she sips tea. But he is a wounded animal and she is a shattered teacup. His wife and her doctor-husband are having an affair, and Caesario and Pamela feel rather wistfully that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Holy Waifs | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...extinguished Beacon might wind up behind a hyphen on the masthead of the Eagle's afternoon edition, and room may be found for a few Beacon editorial hands on the Eagle's staff. But what really interested the city, after 32 years on a starvation newspaper diet, was a possibility raised by the dying Beacon itself in a farewell editorial: "It may be that Wichitans will read better newspapers than they have seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life After Death? | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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