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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toto's ragged flock takes such childlike joy in simple pleasures that its members naively pay admission to a charlatan for a view of the sunset, romp happily through a snake dance when they discover water gushing out of the ground. Then the gushers turn out to be oil, and a plutocrat snaps up the property on a tip from the camp's opportunistic sourpuss (Paolo Stoppa). The plutocrat sends his private police to oust the squatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Import, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

Lowell dominated yesterday's inter-House athletics, winning both A and B league basketball games from Leverett, and blanking Adams' week hockey squad. Bitsy Grant led the Bellboys' pucksters as he sank five goals in the 8 to 0 romp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Wins Over Adams, Leverett | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...Never in all my born days," wrote Ruark, "did I romp into a city room and scream: 'Stop the presses, we're going to bust this town wide open!' I never turned up a hat in front, nor wore a press card in the band of said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stop the Presses! | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...make its stars look like just folks, and began marketing some of the oldtime glamour. Said she: "You can't pick up a magazine without seeing pictures of your favorite star marketing...washing dishes, hanging out diapers, changing babies. If they haven't got a baby they romp with a dog... You never saw Valentino holding a child; but you saw him with a beautiful babe on his arm. Jack Barrymore never posed for a life-with-father layout. Have you ever seen a picture of Garbo hanging out wet wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Paths of Glory | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

With the exam period diamond drought at an end, the varsity baseball team will romp on Soldiers Field grass again at 3 p.m. Thursday with Boston College as an opponent and then move west to meet Williams at 3 p.m. Saturday...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Varsity Nine Meets B.C. Thursday, Travels to Williamstown Saturday | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

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