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Word: pantsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desperate Young. Not for the tender-minded was the week's most probing social drama, Crime in the Streets (ABC's Elgin Hour, Tues. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), about the effect of grinding poverty on a sullen 18-year-old named Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

On his outings around Paris, Mathieu drives a Rolls-Royce, and according to one admirer he "is quite capable of making long trips through the most beautiful countryside without even seeing a thing." A laudatory essay in the current Art News seems to show that Mathieu paints as he drives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Fox of Paris | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet, the planes he flew were as perky as their pilot. Light wood, fabric and singing wire, they could bounce to a landing on some farmer's field as handily as they touched down on military runways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Planes for Pleasure | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

When President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) was thumbing his nose at the world's great powers by expropriating their oil holdings in Mexico, he scared the striped pants off U.S. diplomats, who feared that he was setting up a Communist-type state right next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Down on the (State) Farm | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Said a West Coast clothier: "We're on the verge of the greatest revolution the men's clothing industry has ever felt." Revolution was not quite the word, since man's basic garb will still be a pair of pants and a coat. But change there is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Brick-Red Look | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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