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Word: wenches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wild West. In Portales, N.Mex., the Daily News ran an advertisement for the Bud & Cliff Wrecking Yard: "We do wench work anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Filmakers; RKO Radio), a title that conjures up visions of a wanton wench on the marquee, turns out to apply to nothing more alluring than a tennis ball. The heroine (Sally Forrest) is a teen-aged tennis virtuoso whose selfish, frustrated mother (Claire Trevor) exploits the girl's talent to wangle a life of ease, travel and glamour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 25, 1951 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Although the college is rated highly academic-wise, social activities are there for those who want them. The answer one Waban wench gave to the age old question, "Who Wellesley?" seems to sal the tone. Stretching her arms up to the sun, she looked coyly out of the comes of one eye, and demanded, "Well, why the hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highway Haunts, Lakeside Luxuries Supply Entertainment for Travellers | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...never cold-shoulders a villain's challenge, never flinches in his dedicated task: foiling a 16th Century Bourbon plot against the Valois crown. He rides up & down the countryside, carrying messages and giving chase to enemy agents, almost loses his life when he falls for a comely English wench over from London to spy on King Francis (her eyes "expressed a contradiction of emotion: gaiety and daring, with an undercurrent of sadness"). But when the rebel trap is sprung, Blaise bares his steel and redeems himself, shoulder to shoulder with the king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spice & Spectacle | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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