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Word: knuckleheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practiced killing bulls. In Spain he acquired a matador's long sideburns and a sense of tragic ritual that contrasts oddly with his Texas drawl and quick grin. His father, a welding-company owner, backed him all the way, spent $25,000 on his training. "I told that knucklehead I'd go with him to the last drop of blood," says Baron Clements Sr., "and I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Matador from Texas | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...pays so well I can't quit now." Winchell, who does not enjoy being addressed as "Paul Mahoney," tries to dominate his dummy by demanding top billing, keeping some of the laughs for himself, and crowding Jerry's act by introducing new characters. A Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead Smiff is now getting a big buildup. But Jerry, a redhaired, eye-rolling twelve-year-old, remains a scene stealer whose small-boy enthusiasms (Winchell reads comic books to keep in style) and good-natured sauciness (but none of Charlie McCarthy's lethal impudence) surmount the reality that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keeping Jerry in Line | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...romance, which frosts over whenever Loretta's conscious mind is in control, is embellished with some embarrassingly precious dialogue. She calls Cotten a frog and wants to kiss his warts away; to him, she is "Princess Felicity" or "knucklehead." Her mental condition leads her to such fey adventures as spending the night in his bedroom (listening to him talk shop) and marrying him while her fiancé's back is turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 25, 1951 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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