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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The pod is scraped with a three-pronged scraper early in the morning, and the opium taken off with a knife before noon and wrapped in a poppy petal [see cut]. Stopping the opium trade is only half the problem. It is necessary to give these people other sources of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Therefore, your claim that the MeBAC theatre is being "used as a weapon by one group to kill off all the others" is shown to be rash and unfounded.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to AlCapp | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

Siobhan McKenna's Lady Macbeth is a most impressive and consistent performance. For her first entrance she makes a long, grand sweep, with lengthy red tresses flowing down her green gown. Before she has uttered a syllable, we know that this is a woman to be reckoned with, a woman...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Macbeth | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

The script is neither profound nor off-beat, as most of the Tufts repertoire traditionally is. It is actually little more than a reminder from a couple of real pros that the old adage "there's no business like show business" has some foundation. But it is amazing how much...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Royal Family' Presented at Tufts | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

BARBARA SREER, by Stephen Birmingham (371 pp.; Little, Brown; $4.50), is based on a standard Marquand gambit-you can go home again, and again, and again. As she sees herself, Barbara is a yacht-club girl in a rowboat basin. Locustville, Pa. is an industrial town, and her husband Carson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Side of Parody | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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