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Word: mata (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seedy-looking firing squad aimed its rifles at Dagmar Godowsky. Her father, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, turned to Marie Dressier and said: "Tell me the truth. Marie, do you think Dagmar has a future in pictures?" Replied Veteran Comedienne Dressier: "Definitely." The guns went off and Dagmar, playing Mata Hari. fell to the ground. As she recalls the moment: "My fate was sealed. It was the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadows from a Lunarium | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Forward, Gunner Asch! has its sententious anti-Hitlerism ("Yes, Lieutenant-a dishonorable war. Deliberately unleashed. Conducted with the methods of a pimp "), and a melodramatic love affair which features a class-C movie Russian Mata Hari who loves her German officer sincerely even as she betrays him. But its freewheeling candor is as engaging as it is un-Prussian. Even its most improbable episodes are edged with Soldier Kirst's knowledgeability, which consistently saves Novelist Kirst's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Things Hitler Never Knew | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...heard a thud on the mat and looked up. Bob Ogden was rubbing his left shoulder. "Was that an Uchi-Mata?" he asked his opponent, foigning civility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...Operational guided-missile squadrons, stationed in Germany (TIME, Jan. 25), ready to use the ground-to-ground Mata dor as necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The New Dimension | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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