Search Details

Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...special tragedy of Cyprus is that it involves friends, and that the suffering should be so simply avoidable. A clear statement from the British government promising the right of self-determination at a definite time in the near future to Cyprus' 520,000 people could halt overnight a conflict that daily grows more violent and more dangerous. Week by week it becomes more apparent that Britain's release of control of Cyprus to its inhabitants is not only the just solution, but the inevitable one. "One wonders," wrote the conservative London Daily Telegraph's Cyprus correspondent last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Too Much Death | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...them bad most of them popular, some of them good experience. By 1944, when Roberto Rossellini offered her the lead in Open City Magnam had developed a style that was to set the acting fashion in Italy from that day to this. She called it realismo and overnight the narrow highways and byways of Italy were crowded with "Ma-gnamni," who frumped their hair down over their eyes, ripped a few strategic seams m their cheap cotton prints and generally made a sensual virtue of postwar economic necessity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Soon after, Harkness made his $10,000,000 offer, and the House system was on its way. Harvard's physical plant had almost changed overnight, and intellectual tongues wagged across the nation. H. I. Brech summed it up in the New York Times when he said...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: After 25 Years: Upperclassmen in the Yard | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

...Overnight accommodations en route can be had either in firehouses or hotels, whichever the student prefers. The engine is leaving under cloak of darkness to avoid any undue fanfare by appreciative local citizens, Kilfoyle emphasized...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: City Offers Students from Midwest Free Journey Home in Fire Engine | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

Cars parked on bridges, in front of driveways, or obstructing traffic in any way would automatically be towed away under Morton's proposal. Frequent violators could, however, be towed away from fraction of parking regulations, including all overnight parking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full-Scale Attack On Car Violations Sought by Ex-Eli | 12/13/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | Next