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Word: nicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American (Universal-International) is a nice little football picture, timed to get to the theaters as the real thing goes on display in the stadiums. Nick Bonelli (Tony Curtis), the slum-bred hero, is definitely depressing to the crew-cut rich boys at Sheridan U., because of his longish, jive-type hairdo. But most of the undergraduates are willing to suspend class warfare in Nick's case because he is such a good football player. Class harmony is assured when Nick goes off to the barber and comes back to win the big game for the home team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Starting at ends will be veteran, defensive men Harvey Popell and Bill Weber, while Nick Culolias and Bernie O'Brien will play tackles. Bill Meigs, the only sophomore in the starting lineup, is back at his guard post after recuperating from a mouth injury. The other guard is former freshman captain Tim Anderson. Jeff Coolidge, dependable first string center, will drop back on defense and help back the line, as he did last year...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Varsity Football Team Favored Over Ohio U. In One Platoon Inaugural in Stadium Today | 10/3/1953 | See Source »

Taking care not to nick her big, flat hat, Esperanza Wayne, estranged wife of Cinemactor John Wayne, poked her head out the window of her pickup truck in a fetching demonstration of woe. The truck, used for hauling garbage and dirt about her Encino, Calif, home, "is my only transportation," she wailed. Her Cadillac had been attached for bills run up since she and Wayne parted last year. Esperanza was asking the superior court for $9,000 a month to live on, instead of the $1,100 temporary alimony granted her pending their divorce trial next October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

After six weeks' study, the House Appropriations Committee, headed by New York's economy-minded John Taber, last week reported out to the House floor an armed forces appropriations bill which would nick $1,337,422,500 off Defense Secretary Wilson's pared-down budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Another Nick | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Divorced. By Martha Raye, 36, cavern-mouthed comedienne of screen (Monsieur Verdoux) and TV (All Star Review): her fourth husband, Nick Condos, 45, manager of her Miami Beach nightspot, the Five O'Clock Club; after ten years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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