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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saviors? Throughout her book. Author Suyin works at giving an impression of herself as a political neutral. But the Communists keep coming off best, looking in the end like stern but idealistic saviors. Would she stick by Mark, or go back to work for Communist China? Part of her dilemma was solved when Mark was killed covering the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hong Kong Affair | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...rear guard, when suddenly a new wave of Reds jumped the road, recapturing the ambush area and cutting off the rear guard. Bucking their way through in the darkness, the tanks reached the center of the ambush area, with hundreds of suicidal Viet Minh swarming aboard with potato-masher stick grenades and plastic explosive charges. Some Viet Minh threw themselves under the grinding treads with armfuls of explosives. Six armored halftracks were destroyed and their crews slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Ambuscade | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...coincidence, U.P.'s Los Angeles Bureau Chief Bill Best was also in town, and Scofield invited him too. When Arcesi came on to sing his song, Model Ariel Edmundson sat at a front table by herself, decked out with clues from all over the U.S.-a swizzle stick from Manhattan's Stork Club, matches from Miami, a dress from San Francisco -but no mark of identification. Says Scofield: "I wanted to have something from each city so the papers would think she was a home-town girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Gimmick Man | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...offers an exotic "green Rotterdammer," made with a dash of green Pomerans bitters, two teaspoonfuls of sugar and soda water. "But," he warns, "add the soda water carefully or else it fizzes over with a nerve-racking noise." Illustrator Langdon ("Not a very good drinker," he says) tries to stick to a simpler recipe: stop drinking before it is too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Universal Hangover | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...were to X-ray every Oscar," says Movie Producer Sam Katzman, waving a cigar the size of a shinny stick, "you'd find every one of them has an ulcer inside." "Jungle Sam" Katzman probably will never have either an Oscar or an ulcer. He specializes in such surefire blends of sex and adventure as Serpent of the Nile and Battle of Rogue River, plus a stream of quickies for the cap-pistol set (Chief of the Senecas, Jet Commandos), and a seemingly endless chain-ten so far-of Jungle Jim pictures. Jungle Sam never spends more than half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Sam | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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