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Word: sneered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular that he can almost be said to smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall Vopo. "Hello, long one," he cried. "Your pants are open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Rebellion in the Rain | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...they make "separate but equal" a fact, the courts are sure to saddle them with "whole hog" rulings, i.e., complete equality. Many states are hastily building fine new Negro schools and hospitals, although from a purely economic standpoint, "separate but equal" schools are insanely wasteful. Most Southerners no longer sneer at the educated Negro as "biggety"; many want to help the Negro get a better education, better jobs and better housing, and let the rest take care of itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The U. S. Negro, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...Maybe the scientists are wrong. That does not alter the fact of their findings or the fact of the Administration's response to those findings. It seems to us that these undisputed facts are pretty big news in any league, deserving better than dismissal with an easy sneer, and especially from a publication which has always shown TIME'S intelligent interest in defense problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Russian officers billeted together in a small, neutral German province all act like animated caricatures. And when the door of their quarters bursts open by itself on a windless night and Harrison walks in sporting a black cape lined with red velvet on his arm and an evil sneer on his lips there is no question about his supernatural identity. After picking up a blond WAC (Lueen MacGrath) who confides that she is really an angel sent to undo Harrison's deviltries, the group hops off to a nearby castle containing Miss Harrison as the sleeping beauty...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS | 1/9/1953 | See Source »

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