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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman used some dynamite last week to blast loose at least a part of his civil rights program. At his orders, Solicitor General Philip Perlman, in a speech in New York City, touched off the explosion. Henceforth, said Perlman, the Federal Housing Administration will not insure any loans made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Block Buster | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

After the broadcast, Fulton Lewis whisked his prize off to his farm near Hollywood, Md., proudly stood by as Jordan elaborated his story for other reporters. "It is now apparent that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the A-bomb on a platter," said Jordan. Kotikov would call the Russian embassy, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Dark Doings | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

After the headline-making broadcast, Author Robert Sherwood, biographer of Hopkins, promptly labeled the yarn "one of the most amazing cock-and-bull stories I have ever heard." He declared that never, in his reading of thousands of Hopkins papers, had he seen any White House stationery bearing his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Dark Doings | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Maureen O'Hara may be an expert on décolletage, but she is no great shakes when it comes to acting in Arab movies. This became evident approximately half way through "Bagdad, in which Miss O'Hara is cast as a Bedouin of some means who migrates from England...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

"Bagdad" is an ordinary American western in disguise. The cavalry and the gangsters are there all right, only they are fitted out in flowing robes instead of gray serge, carry swords instead of pistols, smoke aguilas instead of cigarettes, and quote from the Koran whenever a cowboy might toss off...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

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