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Word: whiff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman : with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis TIsIE, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

Sweet Smell of Success. A nauseous whiff of the rat-tat-tattling of a megalomaniacal Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Russians may beat the U.S. in the satellite race. According to this theory, the Russians are probably working on a satellite just big enough to be tracked. It may carry a small radio transmitter, or it may inflate a balloon of aluminized plastic film. Expanded in space by a whiff of gas, it might reach a size that would be brilliantly visible at dusk or dawn. This bright Communist star, rising in the west every 90 minutes and streaking rapidly eastward, would win enormous prestige for its Soviet launchers. To head off such a possibility, Project Vanguard may be reducing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trial Satellite | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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