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Word: squadroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...cold wooden shacks that have been condemned years ago. The plumbing is rusted and faulty, and the heating is almost nonexistent. The so-called poorer countries of France, Italy and Germany furnished their troops with comfortable brick barracks that had rooms for single occupancy to a maximum of a squadroom for six to eight soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...rest of Detective Story's large cast, featuring William Bendix in a straight role as McLeod's older detective-partner, rounds out a lively gallery of Manhattan squadroom characters. For the first time since Champion, Kirk Douglas gets his teeth into a part tough enough to absorb all his biting intensity. Even more impressive, because it is less expected, is the remarkably well-shaded performance that Director Wyler draws out of Actress Parker in the difficult role of the detective's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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