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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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They think vaguely that it would be nice to be back in school. They have given up hope of finding their families. "Sometimes," Son said, "at first I used to dream of my mother holding out her arms to me. When it rains I still remember how it was on the warm floor at home. But I don't think so much about my mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Forgotten People | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle of Wonderland | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...opening in two of Exhibitor Harry Brandt's Manhattan movie houses. Last week, after months of ominous rumbling, Disney and Souvaine entered into battle. Claimed Disney: Bunin's "inferior" Alice would deceive the public into going to see the wrong picture, thus spoiling his nice new Alice's box-office take. In good Tweedledee fashion, Souvaine retorted: Contrariwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle of Wonderland | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Everything." Dagmar (who was born Virginia Ruth Egnor) left Huntington six years ago because she was too softhearted to keep her job in a loan office ("I hated asking all those nice people for money!"). In Manhattan, she tried modeling for a while, got a bit part in the Olsen & Johnson musical Laffing Room Only through one of the shortest interviews on record (Johnson: "What do you do?" Dagmar: "I do everything." Johnson: "I bet you do."). Before the sensational breathing exercises on Broadway Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Breathing, Just Breathing | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Rocky Jordan (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS), "long on nerve and short on talk," and played by Hollywood's George Raft, runs Cairo's Cafe Tambourine, where he matches wits with camel drivers, Moslem fanatics, suave villains, and beddy-bye blondes who murmur: "Be nice to me, Rocky." On the opening show the plot was a scramble for some nonexistent diamonds, nearly as silly as the dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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