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Word: wristed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Del Rio (Robert L. Jacks; United Artists) is a conventional western with a more or less conventional moral, viz., if you try to run a gunman out of town when the wrist of your gun hand is broken, be sure the scriptwriter is on your side. In this one, Actor Quinn plays a gunman who arrives in a one-saloon town and, in a remarkably short time, ventilates three bad men. The good citizens promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man in Need of a Shave | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Rockafellar told the CRIMSON that his assailants threw him to the ground and kicked and beat him. He said that he was robbed of a wrist-watch and a wallet which contained no money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockafellar Robbed | 10/25/1956 | See Source »

...banter. There is no skylarking; this is grim business. Almost every player wears a reminder of just how rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Man | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...hope the University will give serious considertation to not restoring Mem Hall in its entirety. It isn't too bad looking just the way the fire has left it. We don't need the clock nowadays. Everyone has a wrist Watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/28/1956 | See Source »

...Kefauver handshake has deservedly become a national monument. It is not bone-crushing, or even firm. It is limp but not clammy. An inward turn of the wrist prevents pressure that would later cause aches and pains. Unlike Adlai Stevenson, Kefauver does not chatter as he shakes; he utters one friendly sentence and reaches for the next hand. As he shakes with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Professional Common Man | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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