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Word: soaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clothes, decide to insure a zanily beatific spinster junk collector named Opal Kronkie (Eileen Heckart) for $30,000, and then murder her for the insurance. The would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered room in kerosene, but Opal is not obliterated, or even particularly fazed. Her infectious good-heartedness cures the unwholesome three of money fever, and eventually everyone is innocently tossing greenbacks around like confetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Everybody Loves Eileen | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

Mount Vernon, Ind., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: Anchored in the Ohio River, the showboat is presenting Don Marquis' vintage comedy, The Old Soak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like its predecessors, the new installment will first be written in novel form; Producer Wald has already packed Author Grace Metalious back to New Hampshire to soak up local off-color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Big Leer | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A musical soak opera co-starring Fernando Lamas and Joey Bishop with Producer Williams. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...country survived, Lerner got a crush on it, three years ago produced a sweeping, vibrant, 1,036-page paean, America as a Civilization (Simon & Schuster; $10). Last fall the admiring Ford Foundation sent him for a year to Delhi University's Indian School of International Studies to soak graduate students in U.S. lore-and in his own passion for action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Visiting Professor | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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