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Word: plods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last miles home, unfortunately, plod by with an almost unavoidable repetition of earlier gags, and though the winner remains in doubt until the end, the drivers have been behind the wheel too long to generate much suspense. Wise pruning would have helped a cast whose acting is sharp and understand...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Genevieve | 4/30/1954 | See Source »

While Sally is on the stage, I Am a Camera glows with a warmth which even the banality of the dialogue and the plod of the other performers cannot wholly dispel...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: I Am A Camera | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

...even for beginners, should offer a perspective over more than irregular verbs. Unless a language is taught in the context of a foreign culture, its fundamentals are quickly forgotten, regarded solely as means to hurdle a requirement. Yet many College language courses, themselves with only the requirement in view, plod on through the tedium of unadorned syntax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language and Culture | 2/21/1953 | See Source »

...labyrinth where dynamite blasts are fired, power shovels snort, trucks rumble along black,*glittering galleries as high as five-story houses. This week the mine was silent as the miners observed the holidays. But on Christmas Eve, they would troop back to the hillside entrances with their families, and plod 2,600 ft. down into the mountain. There, for the first time, they were to hear Father Luis Posada, mine chaplain, say Midnight Mass in the great underground church, only one of its kind in the world, which the miners carved out of solid salt rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Underground Cathedral | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...aristocratic face. In Norway he had been a cobbler's apprentice, woodsman, stevedore and road navvy. He had come steerage to the U.S., worked for tight-fisted Wisconsin farmers, taught Unitarian Sunday school in Minneapolis, driven a horsecar in Chicago (where he was fired for letting his horse plod past waiting passengers while he read Euripides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Hungry & Unloved | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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