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Word: sharked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should have the ringing rhetoric of a tent-meeting preacher and the money-making genius of a loan shark, but first of all, a college president should be a scholar. Last week the heads of two of the nation's most prestigious women's educational institutions gave evidence that whatever he does, a scholar is not necessarily happy as a college president. The two presidents, both of whom resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Presidents' Flight | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson. The poolroom was Eddie's world in whatever town he happened to be, and such moments of truth as he experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill and pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Eight Ball | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well and is much at home with hoodlums as high society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Top Gunn | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...felt closer to the main currents of French life and thought than I did later on in the more advanced French literature courses, reading such masterpieces as, for example, Lautremont's "Les Chants de Maldoror," where page after page is spent describing how the hero made love to a shark. Frederick Seager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGES | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...from that of Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov. He did not kill out of pride but from shame and pity. He had been marked for the priesthood by his mother, and her merciless determination to pay for his education had led him not to the altar, but to the loan shark's table. After getting out of prison, he finds that all the members of his family have died or been scattered. He lives on in a desolation of scene and spirit that the French, under the fashionable name of existentialism, have jazzed up as something to be talked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Purblind Furies | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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