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Word: libbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope took an ad lib fall off a barrel on a Hollywood set, landed in the hospital with a badly wrenched back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Off the Chest | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Impromptu shows manage to crop up every now and then in spite of the fact that the station is run on a strict broadcasting schedule. Radio Radcliffe announcers like to ad lib Spike Jones records...

Author: By Georgianne Davis, | Title: Radio Radcliffe Staff Keeps' Nightly Broadcasting Vigil | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...unease of Western Europe was seized upon by the Communists and by the Third Forcers. Sneered the Paris Communist newspaper Libération: "U.S. hesitations are blocking the Atlantic pact." Sneered the leftist Franc-Tireur: "The Americans are willing to play with this child-alliance but not to adopt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: But, Don't Go Near the Water | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...tricks in a no-monkey-business British accent. Her principal television bugbear is common to every kitchen: how to get everything ready at the right moment. Sometimes she has to gloss over the end of her TV bill of fare in a hurry; again, she may have to ad-lib with her eggbeater, in order to fill out the half-hour. "Food is alive," she says. "You never know how it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Airborne Recipes | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

REVOLUTION IN THE CINEMA-screamed the Paris-Presse. Le Parisien Libéré went one better: MOVIES IN BLACK AND WHITE ARE DEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolution in Color? | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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