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Word: mama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hodges, napping soundly, missed the overhead fireworks, but she woke from her sleep with an impression that all was not well. "Mama came running in," she reported later, "and asked me if the house was falling down. I said I didn't know. I thought it was the chimney. I got up and started out of the house. Then my hip started hurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star on Alabama | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Mama Doll Song (Patti Page; Mercury). Mother instinct takes over, with bosomy Patti lovingly imitating the cry of a mechanical doll in waltz tempo, all undisturbed by Freudian implications. Bestseller-bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Wide-Screen Mama Blues (Stan Freberg; Capitol). The top-tune business, particularly that muscular field called "rhythm and blues," gets a heartfelt razzing. "WideScreen Mama," bellows Funnyman Freberg (under the screaming riffs), "don't you Cinerama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Mama you look so fine Ridin' around in that Merc'ry forty-nine, Cause I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Yas, I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Into the Theater. For the first time in his life, Marlon worked hard. In his first Broadway part, playing a 15-year-old in I Remember Mama, he struck the critics as merely "charming," but theater people began to take notice. "Incredibly good," exclaimed Director Robert Lewis, and the offers began to pour in. In Truckline Cafe ("quite effective"), Candida ("superb") and A Flag Is Born ("the bright, particular star"), Brando raised high hopes; and in A Streetcar Named Desire he fulfilled them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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