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Word: throb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns. When silence fell, Craig began shooting again. Daring policemen ran up, threw flares and gasoline through downstairs windows. Yellow flames began to billow through the house. Fire trucks shot sledging streams of water into the upper windows. But amid the yells, the crackle of fire, and the throb of pumps the cops could hear Craig screaming: "You want me-come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Come In an' Git Me! | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...outdoor theater, Actress Anderson had to howl down the throb of low-flying planes for an unsegregated audience of 10,000, probably the largest ever to see Medea. Total receipts, for seats in camp chairs or on the grassy slopes: more than $16,000. Six blocks away, the National, still obstinately grinding out minor movies and losing money, was half empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Night Stand in Washington | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...bombers, Flying Boxcars, jet-propelled fighters. Then came the parade with massed flags and flashing-legged columns of infantry, floats, Sousa rhythms of military bands, and, at the tail end, a circus calliope. The sunflash from the headlamps of the motorcycle escort made the TV image blur and throb. The hat-waving crowd cheered, torn paper drifted across the screen, and the cameras caught the 32nd President of the U.S. sipping coffee as the parade rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hail to the Chief | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...Sherover, director of the Lingua-phone Institute, decided that St. Louis women have the country's sexiest voices. He explained that they speak with "river bottom throb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Miss Buck relies for throb-appeal on a blend of the Abie's Irish Rose and Cinderella themes. Peony is written in a soggy prose and stilted pidgin that suggest a kind of mimicry of Miss Buck's previous work. Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Customs & Cliches | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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