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Word: knocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Involving a critical mission into enemy territory to knock out a bridge, the bulk of the film is concerned with the exploits of our brave Americano amidst a most unconvincing group of gypsies. Particularly grating is the phoney accent meant to simulate Spanish, ably seconded by the blatant and ill-written dialogue. No effort is made to indicate fully rounded characters; both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman turn in poor performances as Grant and Bergman, nothing else...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...movie studios hoped at first that TV would somehow blow over. Instead, it practically blew RKO right out of moviemaking, threatened to knock over 20th Century-Fox, which rescued itself largely by selling its old pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Hollywood | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...show on Broadway starring himself and his wife and including no calypso at all. "Dancing," he says in his soft West Indian voice, "is something I have to do." He intends to continue choreography, perhaps attempt to compose to some U.S. jazz music. "But first I will have to knock all the Hollywood and Broadway out of the dancers' heads; in the United States only the pelvis is sexy; that will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tornado From Trinidad | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Knock Three Times. In Lexington, Ky., after an elderly man was told by a St. Joseph's Hospital receptionist that E. C. Jones could not have visitors but that he was "much improved," he seemed relieved, said. "I'm glad to hear it. I've been here ten days and couldn't learn that much from the doctors. I'm E. C. Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Even for those who foresee another healthy year for business in 1957, a small worry has been that rising labor and materials costs will knock profits below 1956. Last week, as earnings reports began to come out for the first 1957 quarter, there was less cause for worry. Among companies reporting profit rises in the first quarter or corresponding fiscal period (ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Good Earnings | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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