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Word: potted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spencer Tracy playing an assistant District Attorney named Adam Bonner attempts to prosecute a woman (Judy Holliday) who took pot shots at her husband when she found his in the arms of another woman. Miss Hepburn (Bonner's wife) defends the accused woman. The trial becomes an attempt to defend women's rights to protect their families by any means they choose...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Adam's Rib | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Within the hour, a boyish 28-year-old with cropped blondish hair and a ready grin wheeled into the vacant spot near A. O. Rickenbacker's hardware store. He hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: At Home on Wheels | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through. Paxton dismissed the truck and the jeeps, and hired ten caravan men with 33 horses and a handful of camels and donkeys. A white mongrel dog named It (Turki dialect for dog) decided to join the caravan for pot luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Over the Hump | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...started off by barnstorming Munich. During one address, a spectator demanded "Why don't you go home to your kitchen and cook-pot?" Miss Brucher constantly campaigned that women, ousted from politics under Hitler, should enter the government field...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...think that Hollywood has gone to pot since the war, send an acquaintance to the Kenmore to see the two revivals now on display there. Do not go yourself. Your friend will return singing the praises of current productions, for the pair of films are respectively mediocre and ghastly...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

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