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Word: misfit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Apr. 23, 1951 | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Lieut. Commander Philip Queeg of the U.S.S. Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Realism Without Obscenity | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Relating the story of a freshman misfit, the book suggests that the "secret to social success" is to be found in an R.O.T.C. uniform--friends are easier to win, girls are easier to date, and the summer training maneuvers make of "the shy freshman a regular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comic Book Praises Army Uniform; Says ROTC Is Key to Social Success | 11/9/1950 | See Source »

Many an English middle-class family, caught in the business end of the economic nutcracker, has been dreaming of a freer, easier life in South Africa. Novelist Lessing, who was reared there, has bad news about their dreamland. Her story describes the spiritual defeat of a misfit couple in their war with the harsh realities of the veld. Few writers have succeeded so well in getting its thorny unkindness and its head-splitting heat down on paper, and few have written more devastatingly about the dream of living an easy European life against the harsh African grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thorns in Dreamland | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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