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Word: punks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold him in his sights. The sidekick tries to blow him up along with a small sailboat-Jerry is snagged in the behind by a fishhook and yanked overboard three seconds before the boat explodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Poor Fish | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...story has its lapses and the film its faults. Actor Quinn, though generally effective, sometimes sounds more like a punk out of Cicero than a hood from the Holy Land. And Director Richard Fleischer, impelled by Producer Dino de Laurentiis, has wasted time on spectacle that had more usefully been spent on theme Even so, the film is continuously alive and what keeps it alive is the burning sincerity of its search for the reality of God and the meaning of the hero's singular and apocalyptic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark Brother of Christ | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...taxpayers calmly endured. But wait! Less obvious errors, or outright evasions, are searched out after the returns have been routed to three data-processing service centers across the U.S. There returns are translated onto a punch card and checked by machine for arithmetic accuracy. The U.S. taxpayer is pretty punk at adding and subtracting: almost 2,400,000 errors were caught last year. Of them, about 1,500,000 were in the taxpayer's favor, to the tune of $132 million; but 892,000 citizens shortchanged themselves by $66 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Taxpayer: Due, Blue, and 97% Pure | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

When he finds himself on a collision course with a ferryboat. Captain Foglemayer sticks his head out of the window and hollers: "Get outa da way, ya punk!'' When he loses his broad overboard, he squalls: "Make a U-turn!" When he gets caught in a passing hurricane, he lashes himself to the wheel-which proceeds to spin like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Unsussessful Crinimal | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally, the rat (as he did in real life) catches a fatal dose of lead poisoning in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rooney at 38 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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