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Word: mell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hararit. The second tells of Michael Wager, a Jew from New York City (but, refreshingly, not from Brooklyn), who is both wounded and briefly disillusioned in an unsuccessful attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. This episode gives a cleanly realistic picture of street fighting: instead of charging pell-mell at the enemy, the Israelis advance in twos and threes, hugging the walls of houses and making quick dashes for the protection of doorways and abutments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Blind River is past its early frenzy, but now it is pulsating with the deeper excitement of proved riches and the pell-mell drive to get them out of the ground. Geologists have declared that there may be uranium ore reserves of at least 150 million tons in the 900 square miles. Already the shafts are being sunk and mills built for four huge mines. One of them alone, Algom, will be capable of producing more uranium than all of the 600-plus uranium mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Billion-Dollar Empire | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Hitlerian Ideas. Short, burly, blue-eyed Johannes Strydom can rouse a Transvaal audience like no other man. When he speaks, his arms are like whirling windmills, his fingers become jabbing pistons, and words fall pell-mell from his lips. In Parliament he has an authoritative air, snaps his fingers at backbenchers, invariably receives a bigger cheer than Malan. He has a bitter tongue, and is quick to take offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The New Prime Minister | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alabama's School Book Act Proves Ludicrous | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alabama's School Book Act Proves Ludicrous | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

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