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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foster wasn't flustered. "Joe," he replied coyly, "that isn't the question. The big question is whether you are going to be a good boy for the next six months." In a busy week, McCarthy also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Pas de Deux | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

With the Republic of Ireland, if it isn't one thing, it's bound to be another. For two years the Irish of Eire were miffed because Australia's government was represented in Dublin by a mere charge d'affaires, while Eire had a full-fledged ambassador in Canberra. Last April Australia (20% of whose population is of Irish descent) did its best to make amends, appointed a mystery writer named Dominic Paul McGuire as Ambassador to Eire. He got as far as London, but no farther. Miffed all over again, the Irish had turned McGuire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Ambassador to Nowhere | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...shops and shaggy park. In the tavern cyclists gleefully guzzle beer while Brando strides about with an alley cat swagger, convincing the town and audience he harbors a grudge against the world in general. Center of his interest is Mary Murphy, playing a tousled, mixed-up waitress, who asks "Isn't it all crazy?" As her father, the local cop, Robert Keith sometimes seems to worry more about his part than his inability to cope with the disturbance. But he does well as a man who can see a problem yet is unable to do anything about it. Local profiteers...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: The Wild One | 1/29/1954 | See Source »

Most disturbing to Hooton today is the fact that these tall giants are dominating the player rosters of basketball teams. "I am sorry for men so tall," he said, "and it is probably well that they get a break in some game, but isn't there too much emphasis on height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Warns Against Human Beanpoles | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

...mean to condemn the picture by pointing out that it is not particularly new. It isn't, but if you liked Mr. Roberts and the gizmo seenes in White Suit, and especially if you like Gary Cooper, You're in the Navy Now (nee Teakettle) is a fine, funny picture. I like all three...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: U.S.S. Teakettle | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

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