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Word: whispers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers will have to look at is Actor Laughton himself, a fat man in a rumpled suit, leaning on a stool placed on a table. But they will hear his sonorous voice descend to a whisper and rise to a shout as he reads stories from the Bible and Guy de Maupassant, from James Thurber and Dickens and Thomas Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: For TV Listeners | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...legendary Christmas saint himself. When Adrien made his appearance last year in the toy department of one of the biggest department stores on the Left Bank, children left the firm grip of parental hands with a shout of joy to clamber into his lap, pull his beard and whisper their hopes into his ear. As far as the merchants of the Left Bank were concerned, the definitive Père Noë had come to Paris to stay. Adrien's own old heart was bursting with happiness and good news to take to his wife Pauline in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Old for Christmas | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...magazines be withdrawn from the shelves, or at least withheld from persons under 18 years of ago. At first, members concentrated chiefly on pocket editions--the 25 cent variety. Lately, however, it has moved into the sphere of the comic books and has banned such magazines as "Wink" and "Whisper...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...child, Claire often woke up crying. She was afraid of wasps and of crossing a street. A cousin remembers that Claire "had a thing about being shy. She would ask for the butter in almost a whisper." Before Nazi bombs began raining on London in World War II, nine-year-old Claire and her mother were evacuated -first to the southern coast of England, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: She Knew What She Wanted | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...candidate travels hard enough, he doesn't need to speak above a whisper to be heard the length (96 miles) and breadth (35 miles) of Delaware. It's the handshakes that count. John Williams shook hands hard and beat his lawyer, Senator James Tunnell, by 12,000 votes, a respectable margin in Delaware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Pulled a Thread | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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