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Word: pinup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gordon Hall, professional anti-fascist and editor of the monthly magazine "Countertide," last night termed Yale's William F. Buckley, Jr. "the newest pinup boy in the hate network." Speaking before the undergraduate chapter of the United World Federalists, Hall said that Buckley was even "rivaling Senator McCarthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall Hits Buckley for Un-Democratic Policy | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

...have fixed your front cover to the wall. There can be no more suitable "pinup" for us right now . . . [It] hardens us for our own fight for freedom . . . this time on the right side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...Sevareid, a measured, calm-voiced reporter who is hard-put to give both sides of every question in his allotted 5 minutes; NBC's Morgan Beatty, who alternates reading the minds of the Politburo with such "colorful" items as Hollywood's reporting an increased G.I. demand for pinup girls; and Mutual's Frank Edwards, who claims to have tipped his listeners in advance to the B-29 bombing on the Naktong front and usually sounds willing to punch anyone who disagrees with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Urgent Voices | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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