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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear him, at twilight, singing segregation's old unsweet song. But the popularity of a cause rarely cuts any ice with John W. Davis. One of his permanent heroes is Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who (at 71) defied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT. . . | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...traitor. According to Halim, 56 and sexy, Farouk. for all his leering and prancing, is a bush-league lover. "Farouk had an inferiority complex with women," Halim testified. "This is why he ran so much after them. He wanted to show he was tough with the fair sex. Whenever we were competing to gain a lady's favor, I won out without difficulty." With the court hanging on every word, Halim then modestly confided: "I believe I am more successful than [Cinemactor] Robert Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Sabre Jet (United Artists) is a picture dedicated to explaining the importance of sex to the American air effort in Korea. Pilots' wives were in some cases permitted to join their husbands in Japan, and according to this script, it was the thought of the little woman waiting at the gate of the air base after every mission that kept the boys flying. Except for a few routine shots of some gleaming Sabres, the film is devoted to a lot of thick talk about getting to bed early and to some aggressively cheerful gynecologic humor: "Oh, morning sickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...discover the delights brought by the knowledge of good and evil. Women's rights is an unpopular theme, especially among mediocre men . . . When we ask for freedom, they call us unfeminine. My God, no. We are so feminine that we are fighting for the survival of our own sex." Seora Formica, elegantly gowned and coiffured, flashed a warm smile. "If we were still in the harems, I'd be the first to enjoy a life of leisure midst the flowers and birds. In fact, I'd make all efforts to be the favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Woman's Day? | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Moon is Blue," a pleasant little nothing in which everybody talks about sex and no one does anything about it. The Legion of decency was not amused; everyone else has been. At the Trans-Lux Colony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motion Pictures About Town | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

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