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Word: littlest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot-deep waters. Grabbing rocks, the brothers clubbed the shark to death. Ten minutes later, alarmed fishermen racing to the scene found the four small boys, exhausted but proud, resting beside their unorthodox catch: the still twitching body of a 7-ft., 180-lb. salmon shark. Admitted the littlest, Takeaki: "I was scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Giant Killers | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...honor nine Mississippians who have made good north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Among the former Magnolia Staters appointed honorary colonels and aides-de-camp to Coleman's staff: the New York Times's Managing Editor Turner Catledge, Musicomedy Director (Jamaica) and Composer Lehman Engel, and the littlest colonel, ten-year-old Eddie Hodges, carrot-topped standout in the new Broadway hit musical The Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...Littlest Revue wound up the off-Broadway Phoenix Theatre's season with festive intentions but pretty limp results. With but eight people in the cast, it is an intimate revue with a vengeance; and with its faces so quickly familiar and its fandangos so modestly scaled, it stands in urgent need of witty sketches and catchy tunes. But the wit is uncomfortably sporadic and Vernon Duke's show tunes sound remarkably alike. Best thing in the revue is Comedienne Charlotte Rae, who is herself at her best in a pair of screwy madrigal numbers. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...Littlest Outlaw (Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box Office | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Littlest Outlaw (Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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