Search Details

Word: lone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...turbulence of the stormy sky portray a picture of symbolic beauty. The smallness of the figure in the corner confronting the immense forest, and the craggy jutting power of Pasternak's face convey the esteem that both Artist Chapin and America feel for the unyielding integrity of this lone man who has profoundly shaken the complacency of East and West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...sometimes boozy, rocking and often shocking-Singer Pat Boone, 24, stands out as an exemplary type. While earning a reported $750,000 a year, he lives modestly in suburban Teaneck, NJ. with the wife he married at 19 and their four daughters. While recording such jukebox hits as Lone Letters in the Sand and Friendly Persuasion, he attended Columbia University (majoring in speech) and last June graduated magna cum laude. Though a Tennessee-raised descendant of rugged Daniel Boone, he does not drink, smoke or cuss. On occasion he gives guest sermons to Church of Christ congregations across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Teen Commandments | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Ralph J. Rivers, 55, lone member of the House of Representatives. A onetime territorial attorney general, wiry Ralph Rivers has long been a top vote getter in Alaska, was once mayor of Fairbanks, two years ago made a 6,500-mile auto trip to Washington, where he, Gruening and Egan announced themselves as duly elected representatives of the abortive "Alaska Tennessee'' Plan, demanding recognition for Alaska as a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Sweep by the Democrats | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...plains brought law and order to the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of Justice. Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...Caesar. Gleason Kovacs-who have tinkered fitfully with the unspoken attitude. Skelton shuffled through the pathetic attempts of Freddie the Freeloader to cadge a Thanksgiving dinner from the Elite Restaurant. His kindness in returning a rich matron's purse was rewarded with no reward: a policeman rapped a lone apple from his hand; he bungled his temporary job as a dishwasher. But at last a kindly stranger invited him to share his turkey dinner (fastidious Freddie, presented with a finger bowl, carefully daubed his armpits). By the time bird-sick Freddie woke up in the hospital to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Golden Silence | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next