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Word: whoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the trapper who aimed a kick at what he thought was his neighbor's dog one night, connected with the rump of a polar bear. It is a society of rough humor; in-transit passengers at Frobisher blush to see the yellow de Havilland Otter labeled "Arctic Whore." Housewives soon learn to adjust to the rigors of the North. They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break the arms and legs off the frozen long underwear. During the long winter nights, families get together like people anywhere to play bridge, drink beer, listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Great Tomorrow Country | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...have changed in Streetcar, I'm afraid the protagonist of the play has not. This is not Stanley's play nor ever will be, and to try and make it so by removing every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power" without some sort of intellectual substantiation does not make an exciting theatre, I'm afraid...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...stop-prostitution bill that was passed in 1956. In the U.S., where prostitution has seldom been seriously discussed on the screen, audiences will no doubt be stunned by the film's unblinking realism. But they will probably not be startled by the scriptwriter's discovery that every whore has a heart of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...over by Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, a willing tool of the Communists, the court stages televised nightly trials of "enemies of the regime," i.e., enemies of the Communist Party. Mahdawi is a suety, quick-witted ruffian-"Egypt has always had bad rulers. Cleopatra was a whore"-who holds court to extract confessions rather than dispense justice. Making up his own rules, treating the accused as already convicted, interrupting to make long and wildly irrelevant speeches, Mahdawi, with his four fellow judges, has already sentenced to death dozens of victims, including two former Premiers of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...takes rocks and gravel, well-a To make a solid road well-a It takes a good-looking woman, well-a To make a good-looking whore, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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