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Word: idiot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idiot boy Bub Quigley frightens and revolts Amy with his drooling and twig-chewing. In a sudden funk over the death of a cow, Amy herself races crazily through the bush one night and has a miscarriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Australian with a Hoe | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

They attended three Chamber of Commerce dinners and a Kiwanis lunch, spent a night at the Kozy Korner Motel in Humboldt, played the jukebox, window-shopped, chewed gum, tried "Tummy Buster" and "Idiot's Delight" sundaes at the Milky Way Dairy in Oskaloosa, "the middle of the Middle West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Good for the Corn | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Died. Richard S. (Skeets) Gallagher, 64, onetime vaudeville headliner and fast-patter comedy star of stage (No, No, Nanette, Good Night, Ladies) and screen (Idiot's Delight); of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Hell, with the radio, any idiot can make a speech if he can read. It has hurt the country, too. We don't know our candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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