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Word: quipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ameche. Dancer Pat Stanley is piquant, and the best of Agnes de Mille's dances and ballets are stylish. No One'll Ever Love You is a sassy duet, The Beast in You an amusing ditty. Walter Kerrs staging is lively and firm, and here a quip and there a crack bears Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Kerr's dewy, screwy touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...criticized as a waste of taxpayers' money because many men use it to get a college education and quit the Navy after serving their minimum three years. But the Holloway Plan flourished despite the criticism on 52 college campuses coast to coast, and a new quip passed into the Navy vernacular. The quip: "Did you get your commission the hard way [i.e., Annapolis] or the Holloway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Restrained Power | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...organized force of a community," wrote the Navy's Mahan, "is and must remain the basis of social order so long as evil exists to be repressed." The admiral and his men might even rerun it into a new definition of the t)ld Navy quip that had loomed so large in the long and notable service of Admiral James Lemuel Holloway. That new definition, which was also a new challenge: Do you fight the cold war the -hard way, i.e., by letting things slide into a shooting war, or the Holloway, i.e., by deploying adequate power to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Restrained Power | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...appeal came down to Miami News staffers from Editor Bill Baggs: ''Please do not hide any more suits on the expense account." Baggs' quip was characteristic of the front-office reaction of the nation's newspapers to the recession: concerned, but far from desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Downhold! | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Groucho's quip could also have been taken as a commentary on the stock market, which could stand only so much experimentation before it toppled over dead on Black Thursday. In an editorial entitled "Taking Stock," the CRIMSON noted that the "activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Depression, House System Mark '33's Harvard Years | 6/10/1958 | See Source »

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