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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ireland's tosspot Playwright-Autobiog-rapher Brendan Behan, a portly 36, tippy-toed back into London, whose citizens he treated last July to the spectacle of one of the most monumental binges of modern times. Proudly proclaimed Wife Beatrice, who did not accompany Behan on his summer pub safari...

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

The power behind Southern Cal's surge to the top is an oldfashioned, rib-rattling line that clears the way for T-formation backs. On the basic power sweep to the right, glowering End Marlin McKeever cuts down the tackle, and glowering Guard Mike pulls out to lead the...

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

To toughen their fighting fingers, contestants had long practiced such tricks as pulling a string of five coal carts up an incline, or tugging along a 4½-ton truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Finger Exercise | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Faithful to this rigid ritual, few writers busy paying for their swimming pools and Thunderbirds with Private Eye cash could take the facetious oath of Britain's Detection Club-that their heroes "shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them . . . not placing reliance on nor making use...

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

Like the Western. TV's Private Eye certainly cannot lay claim to realism, either. His real-life counterparts work out of the country's 5,000 agencies (and earn a collective income of about $250 million a year), not out of swank bars and seedy clip joints. They...

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

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