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Word: shari (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century-Fox) is a movie of and for the family. It has just about everything, including Technicolor, that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a skyrocketing demand for its Arabic edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Al Mukhtar | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reconquering An Empire | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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