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Word: sweater (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beirut's plush American quarter the unshaven man in the dirty grey sweater attracted no attention. Ignored by the gossiping Lebanese police on the corner, he waited patiently until a grey Opel sedan got almost abreast of him in the narrow street. Then, calmly setting his shopping bag on the sidewalk, he pulled out a Beretta submachine gun and opened fire. Inside the car 34-year-old Colonel Ghassan Jedid Defense Commissar of Syria's outlawed Socialist Nationalist Party and onetime commandant of the Syrian military academy, slumped over dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Sentence Executed | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary personality, and women acquire the expression of poleaxed sheep; he exudes sex appeal like a leaky electric eel. He chooses his clothes with care ? the Italian shoe of exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown on. the educated nostrils flare just the least little bit, and the rich low cello voice begins to murmur intelligently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wunderkind | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Road Show. In Miami, when cops questioned Willie Cooper after they found him wearing four shirts, four pairs of pants, a sweater, two denim jackets, an overcoat, gloves and three hats jammed on top of each other, he offered a ready explanation: "I travel quite a bit and don't like suitcases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Mort made his way through the tables and on to the stage, his crimson, V-necked sweater glistening in the light. He wore an unbuttoned, button-down shirt, a few hairs showing at the opening near his throat. He was from California...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Thimk | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...Criterion will be a good thing only if it arouses violent criticism, and stimulates the expression of anatgonistic conceptions. If Criterion induces the Yale undergraduate (or anybody else) to spend a little less time in his blue sweater and a little more in introspection and verbalization, it will be a good thing. If, however, it leads the contributors to the self-satisfied assurance of "having been published," it will be a real misfortune, for the material as such warrants no such conplacency on the part of either authors or editors...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Criterion | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

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