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Word: mikes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd loved it. In Ike's half-hour before the mike, they stopped him with cheers and yells of "Go to it!" "Attaboy!" a total of 61 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing Funny | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Mike. A sprightly comedy in which Katharine Hepburn plays a lady athlete and Spencer Tracy a sports promoter (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Mike. A sprightly comedy in which Katharine Hepburn plays a lady athlete and Spencer Tracy a sports promoter (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Mike. A sprightly comedy in which Katharine Hepburn plays a lady athlete and Spencer Tracy a sports promoter (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Contributor of most of the tittle-tattle and digression on the British show is voluble Panelist Harding, whom the BBC once banned for seven weeks from Twenty Questions after he audibly mumbled into the mike that the show was "a silly business." Later he was officially scolded for snapping at a whisky broker on What's My Line?: "I'm tired of looking at your face." Unlike U.S. audiences, Britons win no prizes on their quiz shows. The successful challenger who manages to stump the panel is rewarded with a parchment scroll, suitable for framing and hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winkle-Washers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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