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Word: smiles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police grabbed Viktor Shashkin, 19, an awkward, gangling youth with big, vacant eyes; Vadim Vorobiev, 17, with a dangling forelock and a crooked smile that revealed a gold cap set on a healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Zoot-Suiters in Moscow | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...side to the Tebaldi personality-a kind of native stubbornness that no amount of argument can shake. And occasionally, Tebaldi allows her well-reined temper to show. One opera manager who has worked with them both finds that he would rather face Callas' furies than Tebaldi's smile with its "dimples of iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva Serena | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Low Pressure Magician | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a redheaded Texan with an easy smile and casual manner, had spent more than half of his life at Harvard when he agreed, in 1949, to make the move to Northampton to become the fifth president (all of them have been males) of Smith College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wright: A Scholar as President | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...while the acting ranges from adequate down. The only exception to the latter stricture is Miyoshi Umeki, the heroine who is exceedingly good at looking demure. One might even go so far as to call her charming. Pat Suzuki as her brassy rival has an absolutely A-number-1 smile, and a pretty good figure too. Her singing will be fun when she learns how much volume she needs to fill the house. Ed Kenney plays the handsome hero with whom half of Chinatown is in love; he sings okay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flower Drum Song | 10/31/1958 | See Source »

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