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Word: manhunt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of his security police, Nespoli, began the manhunt full of confidence. At the end of three days he was stumped, and in mortal fear that his failure to find the murderer would mean, literally, his own head. Reluctantly he tried to pin the crime on an innocent scapegoat, a halfwitted girl. When that failed, it was anybody's head. Cassano became a city of pointing fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morality Whodunit | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...begins with a rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...office cashier was frantically scrubbing his face with what looked like a handful of dollar bills. This indicates that "Clouded Yellow" is a financial success; it's also a good picture. Producer 'Betty Box' has done a skillful job of combining the three basic thriller plots--espionage, manhunt, and psychological intimidation...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Clouded Yellow | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Call It Patriotism. The alarm, sounded a few minutes later, set off the biggest manhunt in Cambodian history, but failed to catch up with le petit Tho. Said General de Lattre de Tassigny: "Never before has terrorism revealed itself with more cruelty, cowardice or dishonor." At week's end the Viet Minh radio announced that "the patriot who liquidated Commissioner de Raymond is now safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Little Tho | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...shipped to France. But there half a dozen of them are sold, by mistake, to a party of British schoolgirls. Guinness & Holloway, fearful that the souvenirs may get back to the baffled authorities, chase after the little girls and then, in turn, become the object of a nationwide manhunt, slapsticky with pratfalls, hairbreadth escapes and colliding police cars. Highlight: Guinness eluding his pursuers by fading invisibly into a throng of Britons, all identical in sack coats, bowler hats and umbrellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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