Search Details

Word: tars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...North Carolina's Tar Heels, with Choo Choo Justice's help, beat L.S.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Unbeatens | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Communists were different. Then the U.S. movie, The Iron Curtain, story of the Soviet spy ring in Canada, came to Montevideo, and Uruguay's Commies broke the spell. About 200 of them turned up at Montevideo's Trocadero theater and made an unseemly rough house. They lobbed tar at the screen, dropped stink bombs, and smashed some seats. As dismayed citizens rushed for the exits, the police arrived, went after the demonstrators, carted off 70 prisoners. Finally order was restored. The citizens drifted back to the theater, and after everybody had stood up and sung the national anthem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Tar on the Screen | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Meantime, olive-skinned Andrea Perez, 23, and tar-skinned Sylvester Davis Jr., 27, who are members of the same Catholic parish, now could (under court order) get the marriage license which had been denied them in Los Angeles more than 14 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: The Person of One's Choice | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...belt last week, tongues were wagging with happiness and hope. At last, the state had an iron-jawed, copper-bellied football team that combed its hair with lightning and ate opposing tackles for breakfast. First crack out of the box, a fortnight ago, the ferocious University of North Carolina Tar Heels took Texas apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Jack Rabbit of Chapel Hill | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Choo Choo Charlie moved out of his home, to be sure of getting a good night's sleep. His new, five-weeks-old son had developed a distracting habit of hollering his head off. On Saturday, Choo Choo chugged on the field with the other blue-jerseyed Tar Heels for a dogfight with Georgia-and they found themselves trailing by 7 to 0 at halftime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Jack Rabbit of Chapel Hill | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next