Search Details

Word: offal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When decapitation and crucifixion were not effective, the shoguns invented tsurushi, in which the victim was suspended head downward in a pit, often partly filled with offal, to hang in agony sometimes a week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Forgotten Martyrs | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Nobody loves Hammer more than a Windsor butcher who has grown fat on selling the studio his offal: lamb tongues, entrails, eyeballs. Such "authentic art" is a priceless asset to Hammer, which also fills theater lobbies with promotional displays of headless bodies floating in tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: Gold from Ghouls | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Offal. When the conference chair man rang a bell to signal the end of his speech, Hailsham ebulliently seized it, crying: "Ring it much more loudly! Let it ring for victory!" As 4,000 Tories came to their feet cheering, he slowed it to a solemn pace, saying: "Toll it solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chubby Orator | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Britain's ruling Conservatives the overriding issue clearly continued to be the control of the country's climbing inflation. Prime Minister Macmillan, recalling "how eagerly we queued for a bit of off-ration offal" during "six years of Socialist restriction," proclaimed that the difference was that Conservatives believed the state was made for man and not man for the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chubby Orator | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...moviegoers may be baffled by private jokes that put Britons in stitches, e.g., a major who abuses underlings by bellowing. "You're an absolute shower!" -an abbreviated allusion to a British army phrase which might be paraphrased as a deluge of offal. But the skilled producer-director-writer team of John and Roy Boulting (Seven Days to Noon) keeps all this nonsense spinning along blithely, has made Private's Progress a sort of British-accented Keystone Kaper, with pratfalls, chases and cuties in uniform that any nationality can relish without special training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next