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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best sopranos in the U.S. has neither a Metropolitan Opera nor a recording contract, although for 15 years she has been a nationwide radio favorite. Her name: Eileen Farrell, 35, the buxom wife of a Staten Island policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stolen Island Soprano | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Tentative Answers. Once the Socialists were a fierce and demanding minority, and cried injustice from housetop and street corner. The comfortable feared them. Gaitskell represents a new generation. He is no militant. He never talked himself hoarse on windy street corners under a policeman's hostile eye (as did Morrison), or chewed tobacco against the pit dust (as did Bevan). But 30 years after, Labor was in the position of having won its crusade. Once the citadel is stormed, the need is not for happy warriors but a good housekeeper; the welfare state needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Housekeeper for a Crusade | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...shall do as I am told." Four years ago, the succession would undoubtedly have gone without a fight to Deputy Leader Morrison. A cockney policeman's son, genial Herb Morrison is a man after every workingman's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Time to Retire | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

None of the columnists denied that Havana has plenty of unrestrained gaiety. And it is well known that the government believes in reasonable toleration of vice rather than puritanical suppression, which might bring more unemployment, a fall in tourist trade and a drop in the hard-working policeman's extracurricular income. But, as Conte Aguero summed it up: "Some tourists look for beautiful vistas and historic sites, while others seek brothels and adventure anywhere they go. These last-named bury themselves in bawdyhouses, which exist here as elsewhere, and think that all Havana is the same as the tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Righteous Wrath | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Italian moviemakers are no better at doing sequels than Hollywood. Bread, Love and Dreams was a pleasant little comedy that got its fireworks from the incendiary performance of Gina Lollobrigida as she scattered sex and devastation through the streets of an Abruzzi village, and in the manly breasts of Policeman Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Risso. Frisky assembles all of the old cast and most of the old plot for another run-through. But this time the razor edge of comedy has dulled: Gina's rowdiness is strident, De Sica's amorous posturings predictable, Risso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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