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Word: os (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second novel to reach the U.S. from Franco Spain in the past three months, and the second to show that thoughtful and compassionate Spanish writers take a grim view of life. In The Hive (TIME, Oct. 5), Camilo José Cela highlighted the plight of poverty-stricken Madrileños. In The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, 39, portrays the night life of Madrid and offers a world where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Fatalist | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...failed, the lights were out, and a surgeon, halfway through a cancer operation one night last week, was left in total darkness. On Madrid's Gran Via, the Spanish capital's Broadway, neon-lit theaters darkened, shop windows went black. Stumbling through the darkness, Madrileños cursed the latest and worst of a series of major cuts in the city's electricity supply. It was the same throughout most of Spain. A season of parching droughts had left the reservoirs empty. The hydroelectric power plants are old. and the grid system that distributes their current does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Strike in the Darkness | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...os (Claude Thornhill; Trend). One of the sweetest-sounding bands ever assembled, Thornhill & Co. have been out of record-making for a while; here they are back, more sophisticated than ever, on a promising new label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...spoke Spanish. They had been told only that their expected visitor "understands English, but does not speak it." The children soon grasped the meaning of Rivera's phrase ("Enter"), and repeated the invitation to come in. Rivera smiled and walked in with a greeting: "?Buenos dias, niños...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First-Grade Beginning | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...ways to lead the freshmen team to a 7 1/2 to 1 1/2 win against St. Marks. Thurmond, who has been only a few shots above par figures all season, fashioned a 75 on the windy Southboro course to beat Dave Munger 4 and 3. John Parsons halved with Os Edwards in the second match. Pete Malkin lost 1 down to Arch Renshaw, Jim Jones crushed Sol Bundy 6 and 5. John Walsh topped Al Spurr 6 and 4, and Dave Strassier wiped out Ed Sterling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Beats Brown; Freshmen Swamp St. Marks | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

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