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Word: torsos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here we are in Rome," complained an American tourist, camera in hand and vivid sport shirt on torso, one red-hot day last week. "But where are the Romans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Roman Holiday | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...letter to the Washington Post, a reader last week offered the latest explanation of flying saucers: "The sky over the United States is saturated with TV waves from all over the country which get scrambled together . . . Occasionally waves of the same frequency from Gorgeous George's torso get jammed between those from Faye Emerson's neckline and those from the profile of Miss America. When that happens . . . it makes the masculons and the femitrons in the stratosphere fly off on tangents in all directions at high speeds-hence flying saucers. They are just electronic illusions caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monkey Business | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Before Affair in Trinidad has run its course, a good many of these parties have been eliminated by being hit over the head, run down by automobiles, stabbed and shot. In between, Rita shakes her mop of lustrous hair and undulates her silken torso as she sings such numbers as Trinidad Lady and I've Been Kissed Before. If the moviegoer has a feeling that he has seen all this before, it may be because Affair in Trinidad bears a marked resemblance to the 1946 Hayworth-Ford picture Gilda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...gold gown, You Kill Me in a white, off-the-shoulder number, and clinches with Mitch-urn on a sampan, a yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 12, 1952 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...citizen of New Century Three who is saved from a loveless life by a siren named LARA 339-827. "I would like to be in a mating booth with her . . . the full authorized twenty minutes," he mutters to himself, after brief study of her "rhythmic" torso. Author Walt Sheldon gives him the torso for keeps by bundling the pair of them into a rocket and heading it for Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horrors in Space | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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