Search Details

Word: trickyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

"You Must Fight." No man in Indo-China was more an uncontested ruler than Bishop Tu, a French-schooled Vietnamese and a onetime Trappist monk. His flock was half a million farmers who lived in the rich Tonkin coastal area. Le Huu Tu dotted his little theocracy with schools, seminaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Soldiers | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

The singing alternated between hummable melodies and tricky modernities. Outstanding performer: twelve-year-old David Hemmings, who won cheers in what is probably the longest role ever written for a boy soprano. The score as a whole (written for a small, 13-piece orchestra) skillfully skirted the fringes of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten in Venice | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Dragnet (Warner) is the second major television show-I Love Lucy led the way with The Long, Long Trailer (TIME, Feb. 22 )-to make the tricky segue from the electronic to the silver screen. The transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Murders | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

For 16 laps at Nürburgring, Gonzalez hung on grimly; then he gave up. Fangio and the Silver Arrow were too good. Averaging nearly 83 m.p.h. on the tricky course, Fangio finished first in 3:45:45.8. In second place, in Gonzalez Ferrari: England's Mike Hawthorn. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Point of Pride | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Polemic & Chuckle. Author Guareschi regards Communism as a formidable evil, but at the grass-roots level he treats it as more of a joke-tricky, unpredictable, often violent and sometimes hurtful, but essentially a joke perpetrated by clumsy bunglers who do not know that the laugh is on them. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Laugh at Communism | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Previous | 398 | 399 | 400 | 401 | 402 | 403 | 404 | 405 | 406 | 407 | 408 | 409 | 410 | 411 | 412 | 413 | 414 | 415 | 416 | 417 | 418 | Next