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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Miss." Though Tacho runs Nicaragua, he has a stooge President, 76-year-old Dr. Victor Román y Reyes, who happens to be his uncle. Tacho does not live in the presidential palace, but in a grey fortresslike place known as La Curva on the volcanic rim above Managua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...plays cards, he never loses. "It's fantastic the luck I have. It's that way with anything I want to try-I'm the champ. I'm the champ shot of the Guardia National, didja know that? Pistol or rifle. Jeez, I never miss, it seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve." But: "Look," explained Faulkner to the New York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Scripps-Howard's Fred Othman: "We're going to miss HP ole Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Study of a Failure | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Joan of Arc (Sierra Pictures; RKO Radio) gives Ingrid Bergman the biggest role in her career. She almost fills it. If the rest of the movie were up to Miss Bergman, it could be rated very close to excellent. As it is, it rates A for effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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