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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild man of the Andes") is a big country bumpkin who stands 6 ft. 7¾ in., weighs 285 Ibs., and serves his opponents a punch that would scarcely be too stiff for a six-year-old's birthday party. Like Carnera, El Toro (touchingly portrayed by Wrestler Mike Lane) falls among thieves. A well-known gambler and fixologist named Nick Benko (played good and heavy by Rod Steiger) buys up his contract and starts to fatten the Bull for the kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Comprising the Yardling golf team at Hanover Saturday will be Frank Dodge, Dave Bernstein, Mike Taylor, John "Whip" Filoon, Bob Grundeman, and Alan Blinken. The freshmen seek a second win over the little Indians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

...statesmen arrived in a cloud of hopeful generalities. NATO must be transformed into "a more effective agency for consultation and cooperation," said Canada's "Mike" Pearson. John Foster Dulles talked of searching out ways of "advancing NATO from its initial place into the totality of its meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: What Can We Do? | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, 53, president-publisher of Look Magazine and the Des "Monies Register & Tribune Co.; and Mrs. Jan Hochstraser Cox, 36, onetime model, erstwhile feature writer for the Miami Daily News; both for the fourth time, seven days after her divorce from James Cox Jr., Miami Daily News publisher; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Cincinnati. Cincinnati takes pride in Midwestern Hayride (Wed. 10:30 p.m.), which consists of fancy Dans caterwauling heart-rending laments and pretty cowgirls yodeling morosely as they pluck at guitars. The show turns around Master of Ceremonies Willie Thall, a part-time hillbilly from Chicago, who talks corny on mike, but is a city slicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: They Love Mountain Music | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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