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...little to offer, although the view of Mount Washington from the summit is worth the ride up. It lacks the Sugarbush atmosphere, but provides a more rugged day of skiing for the addict. And if you ski in blue jeans and an H.A.A. sweat shirt, no one will snicker...

Author: By Victoria Thompson, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

Financed by anonymous anti-Communist sources, Baer and his Tarantel have shown that there is more than one way to fight Communism. They are doing pretty well with a snicker and a guffaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Armed with a Snicker | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...want to hurt my wife and child either." To make matters worse, Lana has already ditched her steady beau (Barry Sullivan). "I'll have to look through your letters." Sullivan snarls. "Maybe I've missed something." In view of the headlines, audiences are inclined to snicker at this point. Anyway, that rat of an Englishman is soon exterminated in a plane crash, and the picture dies with him. For the next hour Actress Turner conducts a peculiarly, sniffly and tedious wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...readings transmitted the presence of a naked and passionate soul which Mr. Williams cannot hope to convey. Williams as entertainer seems to over-ride Thomas as poet, and thus in comparison the reading seemed a trifle gutless--sometimes straining for a laugh that would be better left a snicker. Thomas's vignettes gained force as the performance wore on and Williams abandoned the conscious mimicking of Thomas's speech patterns...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: A Boy Growing Up | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, came the merest suggestion of a deadpan snicker. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon Maxwell H. Gluck-the businessman who could not put his tongue to Bandaranaike's name nor pronounce Jawaharlal Nehru's when a Senate committee ambushed him (TIME, Aug. 12)-should not fret about his pronunciation difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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