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Word: whoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hedermans was so great that Sullens, 77, finally sold out to the Hedermans for about $500,000, though he stayed on as editor of the News. Said Editor Sullens to his embittered staff: "You may think I prostituted myself. If so, I'm the highest-paid he-whore in Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Revolt in Mississippi | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...fellow playwrights went absolutely Gorky ("Dawn over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unmaking of an American | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...belief they had got their man. The P.W. did not say a word. Then, when Indian guards relaxed their hold, the P.W. remarked, almost casually: "You are wasting your time." and threw himself at the explainer. The P.W. was taken back to his compound, shouting, "Communist son of a whore," but he was also laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Second Humiliation | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Churchill. "The raddled old whore of journalism ... an unprincipled swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Portrait | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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