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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another U.S. plane and Senator Knowland will declare war, secede from the Union, and issue currency. Secretary Dulles will coin a phrase, "passive retaliation," and President Eisenhower will express displeasure but will hope, over four networks, that it was just a mistake. Meanwhile, closer to home, Kirkland House will lose all 16 of its maids in a steam tunnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick A Star, Any Star... | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended to use to build a playground, if she discontinued her act. For his good Samaritanism, this week Stainless has a knife thrown squarely into his chest (see cut). But he had the foresight to outfit himself with a wooden vest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Stainless Texan | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...would cite a passage from Devil in the Flesh and confront his wife with it. "No," she would cry, "it is not true! The boy was only a child." Then, for a while, her husband would believe, and the couple would find an evanescent moment of happiness-only to lose it again in a new surge of distrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Devil in the Book | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey eyebrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE MOUSE THAT WALT BUILT | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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