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Word: plays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power politics. What moved Gomulka to embrace Ulbricht's seedy puppet regime was one of the most powerful levers in Central European diplomacy-the future of the Oder-Neisse frontier between Poland and Germany. It is a question that agitates both sides of the Iron Curtain, and will play a large part in any future Western dickering with Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Trump Card | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...love to their anguish; of sonambulists gurgling from garbage cans; of semi-articulate anthropoids stumbling between sets and grunting their soliloquies; all the varied fare of trash and tedium which passes for tragedy on the Stage of the Common Man--then check your despair at the door. A great play given a great production has come to Broadway; one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: J.B. | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

When the best director on Broadway (Elia Kazan for those in doubt), one of the foremost dramatic actors in America, (Pat Hingle) and one of the the finest living poets conspire to produce a play, you are bound to have a masterpiece. And that's what Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is, one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: J.B. | 12/19/1958 | See Source »

With less than two minutes to play, it seemed as if the loyal and loud supporters of the visiting sextet would be rewarded, when Morrison skated around McLaughlin and lifted the puck into the left-hand corner of the cage. But Les Duncan slapped in Dave Crosby's center to set the stage for Higginbottom...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Team Beats Colby, 3-2, In Sudden-Death Period Victory | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

With three minutes to go in the second half, the Crimson pulled up to a one point deficit, only to see the Huskies increase their lead to six points at the 7-minute mark, to 15 at the 14-minute mark, and finally, with four minutes to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Northeastern Routs Quintet, 68-46, With Strong Rally in Second Half | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

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