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Word: sackfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars and Stripes reporter John J. Sack '51, former CRIMSON editor and best-selling author of "The Butcher," was arrested by military police yesterday for smuggling himself aboard a Chinese prisoner ship in defiance of a strict press...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: Ex-Crimed Sack Arrested for Hiding on Red Prisoner Ship | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

...thought." Socialists must not press state ownership too far, since "the state under the most democratic theory and practice will become too huge, too cumbersome . . . A completely noncompetitive society would be dull and stagnant . . . Socialism should try to stress competition for the laurel wreath rather than the sack of gold . . . But it should recognize that material progress has been furthered by competition for material reward . . . The concept of the class conflict basic to Marxism needs modification. Marx thought that the lines of division between workers and owners were becoming steadily clearer. This, however, has not been the case, least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Building of Brotherhood. As these samples show, Author de Beauvoir knows how to take a bead on a man and bring him down like a sack of hypocrisy. More's the pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady with a Lance | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...also calls herself Lady Diana Harrington-never lost her expensive glitter. She wore a simple dark blue suit, a diamond-studded bracelet and a diamond-studded clip. She exuded French perfume and trailed a "breath of spring" mink stole with the air of a duchess dragging a gunny sack. After scarcely more than one startled look, Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler was moved to describe her as the "golden girl of café society." He grew more eloquent during the arraignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Golden Girl | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...newsman and is still starry-eyed about the "romance of the fourth estate," he has never been more than a journey man journalist. He has written a few short stories, but has never been able to sell any. He started a historical novel ("It was about a sad sack in the War of the Roses"), but couldn't finish it. Yet almost everything he writes for TV is snapped up by eager producers. It takes him as little as seven hours to do a 30-minute show, and he can turn out an hour-long drama in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gold Mine | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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