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Word: shockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once taught Sunday school, thinks of his TV shows as sermons, and regards his millions of viewers as a congregation. But he is quick to add: "Of course, our prime target is entertainment." Last week, on This Is Your Life (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC), his sermon was a real shocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sermon on the Air | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Invasion, U.S.A. (Albert Zugsmith-Robert Smith; Columbia) is a shoddy little shocker that combines a futuristic theme with old-hat moviemaking. A quintet of characters in a Manhattan bar hears the news that the U.S.S.R. is atom-bombing the United States. In the ensuing carnage, the quintet-a tractor manufacturer (Robert Bice), a rancher (Erik Blythe), a Congressman (Wade Crosby) a TV reporter (Gerald Mohr) and a beautiful blonde (Peggie Castle)-are killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Then came a shocker: "If Nunn May wants to go to Russia, and the Russians want him, there is no general power to prevent a British subject from leaving the United Kingdom, with or without a passport. Nunn May does not have a valid passport. Refusal to grant him one could hamper him, but would not prevent him from leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unrepentant Spy | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak to stand or even crawl. The sight was a shocker in itself, but the real shocker came with identification. The pathetic little creature was Farmer Steenbock's own granddaughter, eight-year-old Bärbel Süfke, youngest child of his twice-married, 40-year-old daughter Rosa. On questioning, Rosa Süfke claimed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoner in the Attic | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...game of the week for 40,000 Atlanta fans and millions of televiewers matched the undefeated engineers of Georgia Tech, the nation's No. 2 team, and the Crimson Tide of Alabama, No. 12; for a while at the start, a 200-proof shocker of an upset seemed in the making. Aroused Alabama, threatening time & again, scored a first-period field goal and kept the vaunted Tech attack bottled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football for Fun | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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