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Word: delightfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble, did not attempt to delight the crowd with his show-stopping telefono routine-leaning casually on the bull's head and pretending to talk into its horn. But Dominguin, facing his third and final bull, still had won no ears, while Ordonez had picked up three new ones. Dominguin was badly gored in the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is represented on France's Pathe label in a farcical work titled Platee (mono). The plot deals with the wooing of Jupiter by a spinsterish water nymph. The quicksilvery score, with its pastoral interludes and lavish descriptive effects, is a delight, and the performance is first rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Records | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...boom in menthol cigarettes is the hottest fad to strike the industry since filters. Almost overnight, menthols have grabbed 10% of the market, are expected to crack 13% by year's end. Makers have discovered to their delight that menthol carries a vague connotation of healthful medication, especially attracts women with its taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: It's the Menthol That Counts | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...after an 18-year-old Japanese girl accused them of rape, and one American girl was packed home after allegedly spending 4½ days in a hotel with a Japanese man. But each week brings its share of lesser incidents. The children rip up school buses, delight in throwing things out of the windows. "One day," says Johnstone, "a school bus passed me belching smoke from every window. All the kids were smoking. And as I watched bug-eyed at the sight, a shower of peach pits descended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Colonel's Crusade | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

South Pacific (at the University Theatre). Despite the ill-advised intermittent use of color filters, there still remains the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein show, one of the glorious monuments of our cultural heritage. France Nuyen is a delight as the object of John Kerr's love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recommended . . . | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

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