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Word: waking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When you're alone in the middle of the night and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright When you're alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you on the head You've had a cream of a nightmare dream and you've got the hoo-ha's coming to you . . . And perhaps you're alive And perhaps you're dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hour of the Hoo-Ha's | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...have known better. Widmark kills the first Nazi with a homemade crossbow, the second with a lucky bullet, and the third by running him down in his own airplane. Jane has her story. Widmark can write again. They're in love. All that is needed is someone to wake the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Europe this year," or "Having a wonderful spy. Wish you were her." TV's Producer-Writer-Director Reynolds has concocted a cloak-and-dagger stew from his TV program of the same name, tossed sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum into the cauldron and trusted that the simmering will wake him up. It does not. Mitchum yawningly tangles with a Babel of exotic accents, negligently disposes of spies, counterspies, a treacherous brunette (Genevieve Page), a seducible blonde (Ingrid Tulean). Drones one cobra-suave gumshoe to self-appointed Sleuth Mitchum : "You must be making progress. This morning I was ordered to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...attempt to make their lectures "visually interesting," the desperate professor-performers "began to spend hours and hours getting up gimmicks. A production number on Joyce proved nightmarish-there were drawings of Joyce, a cartoon of Joyce, pictures of Joyce's friends, there was Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Teacher & TV | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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