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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas: Eh? [He forces a smile and listens to Buranelli's praise.] You've had too many drinks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No Tears for Mr. Thomas | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Whipping around the moon and returning to the earth is considerably harder than hitting the moon, as Lunik II did. A little too much speed could toss the probe beyond the moon and into an orbit around the sun. Slightly bad aim or timing could make the probe crash into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunik III | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The new season, announced NBC, would be brightened by "Total Television." Unable to devise a slogan so thumping, the other networks simply agreed that they too would try to make their entertainment total-whatever that meant. One result: a clutch of new "Action-Adventure" series, from a 19th century riverboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Total Adventure | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The Man & the Challenge (NBC, Sat. 8:30-9:00 p.m., E.D.T.) is "not a science-fiction series and not a documentary," says its producer, and he is only too right. Challenge is a mixture of some of the trappings of modern engineering and the tedious cliches of old-fashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Total Adventure | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The show's high point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Major Clown | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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