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Word: pots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funnies with a perfect croak, pushes back his coat to place his hands, fingers down, on his hips while speaking, sings in a voice like the one that must have sounded in the shower at Gracie Mansion. He makes the most of his pudgy hands and Little Flower pot, belts out campaign songs in Italian and Yiddish, bursts out explosively at Tammany men with chalk-stripe suits and Shinola in their hair. He has the look of a man who likes fire trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: New Little Flower | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...orator only in the wacky, obscene, and sometimes brilliantly comic passages that make most of his books unmailable-but that will not be found here. Reading Miller in his scurrilous top form is like ending a riotously drunken evening by getting a foot caught in a chamber pot; but such sport cannot be had in this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...almost as painstaking as Anne's. Her agent and his wife taught her what it means to be blind by making her navigate with eyes shut around obstacles set up in their apartment; they made her practice deafness by teaching her to ignore telephone bells, suddenly clashed pot covers, unexpectedly fired questions. Conditioned reflexes to sight and sound came under control. The cast still remembers with amazement the night at Manhattan's Playhouse theater when a cable snapped with a loud crack high over the stage. Anne and the spaniel that plays the Keller family dog jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Split Pot. In Detroit, a vice squad broke up a dice game, smashed dice table and chairs, carted the players off to jail, returned later to find that the released players had pieced table and chairs together and renewed the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Ferraud "felt a terrible cracking" under him. Hastily grabbing his child from bed, he sprinted with his wife for high ground. Moments later, Malpasset Dam burst in shards like a flower pot, and a wall of water 25 ft. high swept down the valley at 50 miles an hour, washing trees, houses, vehicles and people towards the sea. When the flood smashed down on Fréjus, the old Roman part of the city was largely spared, but the thickly populated western sector went under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Valley of Death | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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