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Word: spectaculars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were times last year when varsity basketball coach Norm Shepard must have looked on his spectacular freshman team with greedy eyes and glowingly thought of how nice it would be to have some of those boys playing...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

Stevenson, who is this year's captain, and Murphy were both regulars last season. Both have lots of experience and are steady if not spectacular scorers. Stevenson is six feet, three inches tall, and a determined player under both offensive and defensive boards. Murphy, who has a deadly one-handed push shot, is a very sound defensive player...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

...guards, Dennis and Condon both appear to be scoring threats. One of the most polished players to arrive on the local scene for several years, Dennis is spectacular in everything he does. Unfortunately, he is subject to hot and cold streaks on his shooting. Condon moves the ball well and has a very fine set shot...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

Lecture at Lunch. In Egypt proper, King Farouk began showing some of the good sense he has been credited with. Back from his spectacular honeymoon, he summoned his ministers to lunch, let them know he wasn't pleased with events. He told Premier Nahas Pasha that if Foreign Minister Salah el Din started making loud speeches at the Paris U.N. meeting, he would recall him. He sarcastically asked his Waidist cabinet members just how they reconciled their party's anti-Communist position with their Foreign Minister's "making Communist propaganda." Moreover, said Farouk, he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: A Million Hushes | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...faith and "his powerful masculine appeal." Between Actor Taylor's woodenness and the coyly pallid playing of Actress Kerr, the struggle seems tame enough to justify one unconsciously comic lapse into domesticity. After Deborah is snatched from the stake and Christianity bests Nero's regime in a spectacular upheaval of death and destruction, Commander Taylor bids goodbye to his trusted friend: "Come visit us in Sicily, and bring Drusilla and the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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