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Word: toko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1953-1953
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...commonplace, strong on sex, sadism and sometimes even history, but woefully weak as writing. There were a few well-carpentered time killers by such canny old hands as A. J. Cronin and James Hilton, an occasional thoughtful and readable story-James Michener's The Bridges at Toko-ri, Herman Wouk's The Came Mutiny, now in its third year of best-sellerdom-but not one new work of topflight fiction. The novels worth cheering about-and there were several in 1953-had relatively scant commercial success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Tales of the South Pacific, The Bridges at Toko-Ri. - ED. - † A band of pro-slavery men, headed by one Charles (Border Ruffian) Hamelton, took eleven Free State men of Linn County, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Bridges at Toko-ri, by James A. Michener. A short novel about a carrier pilot who found out why he was fighting in Korea (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...Bridges at Toko-ri, by James A. Michener. A short novel about a carrier pilot who found out why he was fighting in Korea (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...Bridges at Toko-ri, by James A. Michener. A short novel about a carrier pilot who found out why he was fighting in Korea (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

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