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Word: sneered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days millions of people will clink glasses and kiss each other at midnight to celebrate the advent of a new half century. Millions of others will sneer and say that they should have celebrated this momentus event a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midcentury -- Is It '50 or '51? | 12/8/1950 | See Source »

After a long, hard afternoon, the committee read Mickey a long list of gangsters, from Frank Costello to Charlie Fischetti. Mickey said he didn't know most of them, and was dismissed. As he left the room with a sneer on his face, old Senator Tobey remarked: "The committee must go into this matter further at a later date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: I Ain't Never . . . | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Fancy Pants (Paramount) bills its star as "Mr. Robert Hope (formerly Bob)" and interrupts its opening credits with his disdainful appearance as a 19th Century English dandy. Says Mr. Hope to the audience with a sneer: "No popcorn during my performance, peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx of reporters and photographers waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Become Extinct | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Land & The People | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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