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Word: unctuous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gamely he tried to roll with each blow in the M.C.'s unctuous volley. The first guest was a Utah farmer who reminded Dempsey that they had sparred as boys. Dempsey stared in blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: They Never Come Back | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...self-pity. Men-Russian and German-die in the same mechanical terms, and the Russians share and share alike. Finally, young (34) Narrator Ledig denies himself a soldier's permissible cynicism. His major is led at the end to a military funeral, where, after listening to the "unctuous" chaplain, he and his sergeant exchange an almost mute confidence. Everything but God has been destroyed, the sergeant seems to say. "It would be unthinkable," replies the major, "if that were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Fiction | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

More than 5,000 graveside lectures gave Art's voice the slightly unctuous quality that has made him one of the best-paid commercial announcers on the air; he does the Chevrolet spiels on TV's Dinah Shore Show and on a radio news cast. (His grateful employers spent an estimated $4,000 building him a personal horn for his personal Chevvie; it plays the commercial jingle: "See the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet.") He has also parlayed his voice into the radio program Art.Baker's Notebook, on the air since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Voice from Forest Lawn | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Through the clink and tinkle of the bottles and glasses at the bar the jukebox blasted Tex Ritter's unctuous boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: If Jesus Came . . . | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...subject chosen for debate was rotund Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard's program to control West Germany's economic boom and accompanying wage-price spiral. The debate took the form of a few unctuous commonplaces. Said one of the 150 West Berliners in the audience: "They come to us up here and squabble about their own wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Little Men, What Now? | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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