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Word: meeker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little World of Laos, Oden Meeker tells of a 17th century Dutch visitor who complained that he could not stroll at night in Laos because of the "horrible fornications" all around. Things have changed very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LAOS: THE UNLOADED PISTOL | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...year ago last September, headed for Sacramento, Calif. Every week, while the train fights thirst, Indians and renegade whites, Bond has had to take time out to handle the wild and woolly characters with which his scriptwriters people the West. In A Man Called Horse, beefy Ralph ("Picnic") Meeker turned up as an ignorant settler who had been handed over as a slave to a matriarchal Indian squaw. In The Annie MacGregor Story, a migrating Scottish clan drove off marauding Indians with their skirling pipes. In The Liam Fitzmorgan Story, a group of Celtic types learned about the vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Westward the Wagons | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

Cloud 7 (by Max Wilk) is a comedy about Newton Reece (Ralph Meeker), 39, married, commuter, on the rise with United Foods, who one day, tired of it all, throws up his job. He goes home to Connecticut with no future plans beyond Do-It-Yourselfing in a chair and making love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Assuming that Hodel and Thomson are succeeded by meeker men, the present entertaining balance of power might be thrown completely off. Think what it will be like next February with no ex-president to beat the drum to scare up new members who will vote for his side. With no one to take former president Thomson's place, the yearly race between the two great factions in the club, Old Guard and Older Guard, might not occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Shubert, Ralph Meeker and Polly Bergen are starring in a new play, "The Top Man" by Albert Halper. Curtain time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Town | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

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