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Word: skimpiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next night a second zipper failed as she stepped from her car. Beyond repair, said Jayne, and changed into the skimpiest of green shorts, a halter and blouse. She drank, danced-and shed her blouse. The topper came when weight-lifting Hubby Mickey ("0 Musculo") Hargitay performed his famed stunt of hoisting Jayne horizontally into the air over the crowd. The crowd, getting ready for Lent, ogled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: O Busto at Work | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Author Cronin is, as always, on the side of right, and few authors have ever made the right so palatable to so many (total sales of Cronin books in the U.S. alone: 7,000,000 copies). This time, what with tired writing, so lugubrious a hero, and the skimpiest knowledge of newspapers, the right may not be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 9, 1958 | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...tired of making historical pictures as many moviegoers are of looking at them. Using plenty of stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a side trip to the Holy Land for one of the skimpiest Crusades in filmland history. Ricardo Montalban plays the peasant hero who does battle with evil barons, cruel Saracens and assorted charmers, including Betta St. John and blonde Carolyn Jones, a graduate of TV's Dragnet. Despite the costumes, the atmosphere is more that of the Middle West than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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