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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I was so thrilled I didn't really know what I was buying!" exclaimed a fluttery shopper after leaving a dress shop in Topeka, Kans. She had just been waited on by the newest of the store's dozen saleswomen: temporarily retired Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 38, off and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Off the field, they are finance majors (all Bs and Cs), who fret mildly because they cannot find identical twins to date-"not even unattractive ones." But on the field, they butt heads with unalloyed pleasure. Drawls Stanford Coach Jack Curtice: "Those boys could go bear hunting with a switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twin Trojan Horses | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

With Spade and Marlowe as models, hardboiled Private Eye fiction began to crowd the polite puzzlers off America's bookshelves, was in turn hard pressed by the likes of Mickey Spillane and even, strange as it seemed, by mystery stories about honest, intelligent cops.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Not only the Private Eyes themselves are dry-cleaned. In a TV production, violence becomes strangely stylized; the corpse may have been plugged by a .45 at point-blank range, but there is only a neat hole in the otherwise unsullied forehead. The back of the skull is intact; there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

United Artists) is a thriller that makes a peculiar plea for racial integration in the underworld. The hero (Harry Belafonte, who is also the producer) is a singer in a Harlem hotspot who signs on for a bank robbery to pay off his bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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