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Word: terrors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky's feats dazzle no one more than Rocky. After hitting a home run, he roams the Indians' bench, bellowing with glee, hunting down teammates, who feign terror as they try to preserve their hands from his numbing clasp of self-congratulation. Every locker room in the league has echoed to his rallying cry: "Don't knock the Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Season in the Sun | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Hailstorm. In 1482, after eight years of training, the young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sword of God | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...desperate note to "Mr. Judge" was scrawled by Untamed, who knew no other word for the law. Last week, riding in a police car, the children clutched one another in terror-though Conqueror soon asked the cop for a turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home Full of Poison | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

This is the first opportunity I have had to see this play since Mr. Miller revised it in 1956. It would seem to rank now with Death of a Salesman. In the true Greek manner, it provides "a proper purgation through pity and terror," a cathartic evening of theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'View From the Bridge' | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...broke his routine to witness a spectacle that strongly reminded him of his own people's bondage under the Red Chinese invaders. The attraction: The Ten Commandments, one of the late Cecil B. DeMille's last epics, his twice-filmed tale of Moses' struggle against Egyptian terror and tyranny. The movie won a rave notice from the God-King: "I liked it very much. I was greatly moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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