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Word: twits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century. At CBS, suave and slender (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Vice President Robinson also became known as a cold, meticulous personality, given to $250 Dunhill suits. He sometimes interrupted business conferences to twit an aide for wearing the "wrong" shoes or socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hubble Bubble | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Grumpy Man | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...rather interesting people have opened a new coffee shop on Mount Auburn Street that smacks not one twit of the desperate degeneracy one sometimes associates with such places on this street...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Tulla's Coffee Grinder | 11/28/1956 | See Source »

Overnight, Maria's clothes crisis became another front-page sensation. The fellow-traveling Avanti jumped at the chance to twit church papers: "[They] are evidently discontented with God, for they seek to change His creations." The nationwide hoopla was too much for Maria, and she refused to appear in a specially fashioned dress. Turin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 45-19-39 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Jenkins, 73, bronzed, white-haired iron man of auto endurance trials (his last record: 118.37 m.p.h. for 24 hours in a stock Pontiac-TIME, July 9), onetime mayor (1940-44) of Salt Lake City (before he took office he changed his name legally from David Abbott to Ab, to twit critics who said he needed more dignity); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Among Ab Jenkins' unbroken records: 200 miles at 195.85 m.p.h., 1,000 miles at 172.83 m.p.h., 3,000 miles at 165.76 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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