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Word: inventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Director Helmut Kautner's point is that loneliness and pride make communication well-nigh impossible between people. The seventeen-year-old girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mon Petit | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

...cohesive body. They have not, if you like, a class consciousness. And so for the Student Council report to say "The National Student Association is premised on the assumption that the American student community, in pursuing a common aim of knowledge, can work together as a group. . ." is to invent fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case Against NSA | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...moment later, when asked if he wanted the lights turned up as he worked to invent a new war weapon, speaks the great curtain line for the first act: "No. Give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Heartbreak House | 10/1/1959 | See Source »

...Naturally, all this extra singing and dancing will take up a lot of time. And I do want the show to be entertaining above all, so I'd better play up the farcical opportunities and invent a lot of by-play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

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