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Word: whizbang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to turn the Communism issue against Nixon, claims that the former Vice President "is dealing in panic," that Nixon is simply rereading the same script that got him elected to Congress in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. "Clichés like this went out with 'whizbang' and the Stutz Bearcat," cries Brown. But Pat is careful to advocate an expansion of anti-Communism teaching in the schools "in a nonhysterical atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Taste of Triumph | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Ever since she came to Paris for a premiére in 1951, Italy's earthy Anna Magnani has lived, between films, in semiseclusion on the Left Bank. But for the glittering opening of the Lido's latest braless whizbang, Pour Vous, Anna made the Seine in the unlikely company of Shirley MacLaine. Though the moody Roman appeared to regard the proceedings with dyspeptic disdain, the eupeptic Shirley purred: "Miss Magnani was always one of my favorite actresses, and when we met in 1954, she became one of my favorite people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1961 | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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