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Word: remarkable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are also some skits going down for the third time with their first remark, and human dolls being dainty and very dull, and people who whirl energetically about acting out their dreams. Such things make it hard to apply to the show as a whole any more commodious word of praise than cheerful or friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jun. 25, 1956 | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...from Under. Here was a disconcerting misstatement of U.S. history. It was also such a blurred statement of U.S. foreign policy that the White House next day formally explained to perplexed members of U.S.-sponsored alliances that Ike's "military association" remark referred to association with Communist nations, and that the President certainly still believed in collective security. Then, at week's end, Secretary of State Dulles tried to repair the damage in a speech at Ames, Iowa (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet Your Problems | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...were inclined to agree about Marshall's talent for humbug and his unreliability as a negotiator, but their distaste for the new Asian demagogy did nothing to speed a solution to the problem of unstable Singapore. Lennox-Boyd was left to utter that inevitable Colonial Secretary's remark: "We, for our part, have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: A Time of Lepers | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...twenty-seven minutes they imbibe and renew acquaintances, and then stand out shout for three minutes: "Go, Crimson," or some other suitably other-directed remark. Then they all sit down and start asking each other who won,. for the angle of the finish line makes surveying tools and a slide rule necessary for these spectators to guess the winter...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Egg in your Beer | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

...graduated, Ensign Burke walked under crossed swords, amid all the pomp and circumstances of an Annapolis wedding, with pretty Roberta ("Bobbie") Gorsuch of Washington at his side. He had met her as a blind date, gone with her for three years, wearied his classmates with a favorite remark: "Lord, but that girl of mine is a wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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