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Word: yanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though it features a strikingly Mauldin-like performance by Newcomer Gene Evans as a battered infantryman, the film constantly betrays its quickie origin, leaves the field wide open to such forthcoming pictures as RKO's The Korean Story, Eagle Lion Classics' Korea Patrol, Columbia's A Yank in Korea. Also on the way, celebrating other wars and warriors: MGM's Go for Broke, Paramount's The Submarine Story, 20th Century-Fox's The Frog Men, Republic's Fighting U.S. Coast Guard, Universal-International's Up Front and Air Cadet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 29, 1951 | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...chess team beat the Wells Chess Club, 4 to 1, yesterday in Boston. Yank Wyse, Charlie Cutler, Larry Caster, and Allen Calhamer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

...World War II, more than 40 U.S. civilian war correspondents and soldier correspondents for Stars and Stripes and Yank were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Out of Three | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...depicting sad-eyed mongrels in various stages of "torture." But last week the Examiner's campaign backfired. On Page One, in a top head adjoining the antivivisection campaign story, the Examiner ran a story hailing a medical discovery made at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.* The paper had to yank it hastily after discovering that the findings were developed from experiments on dogs. The same day, the Examiner headlined a long-distance interview with the Rev. Carl C. Rasmussen, ex-councilman who had written the wartime dog-pound ordinance. As the Examiner told it, Rasmussen, who was in Des Moines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Filthy Beast | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...mates. The film-makers were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make things easy...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

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