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Word: sellout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreements that had led to enslavement of other nations. Democrats were pleased. But Republicans were miffed. They argued, in effect, that the Democrats were being allowed to get away with murder. Ever since the war's end, Republicans had hammered at Democrats' responsibility for a sellout of China and Poland at Yalta and Potsdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Enslavement Entangled | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...they took the ice with the knowledge that they couldn't win the Pentagonal League title; they spotted Yale two first period goals--but the varsity hockey players roared back to score twice in each of the last two periods and wallop the Elis, 4 to 2, before a sellout crowd of howling Yalies Saturday night at the New Haven Arena...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Crimson Six Overtakes Yale to Win Again 4-2 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...Braque, and Jean Arp, and learned the hard way. At first, he copied the impressionist manner of Renoir, then progressed to Cézanne and Seurat, and finally found what he was looking for in cubism. When Ghika held his first Paris show in 1927, it was a near sellout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Greek | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

With the Yale game officially a sellout and many alumni disappointed in their attempts to get tickets, undergraduates are placing tickets on the market for as much as $50 a pair. Two signs in the Union yesterday gave phone numbers of would-be scalpers asking that price. Both said they have had no calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scalper Asking $50 For Paired Yale Tix | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...black, mauve and blue. His figures are tortured and twisted: grinning, round-faced peasants with shark's teeth, haunted, droopy-eyed old women, a wheel-shaped nightmare of a sea captain. On opening day, five of the pictures were snapped up and the gallery was looking for a sellout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Turkish Delight | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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