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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sihanouk at first ordained that, to give the operation a bit of class, each bettor must wear a tie. Standards slipped quickly. The basic gaming uniform now is simply shirt, long trousers and shoes. For barefoot peasants who have the dels to gamble, a rent-a-sandal business thrives just outside the casino entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Riel of Fortune | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

Automobile manufacturers have long seemed convinced that it did not pay for them to pay more attention to safety, because the public did not want to bear the cost. Increasingly, however, the automakers are finding that soft-pedaling safety can cost them quite a bit too. General Motors learned that lesson with its Corvair line, which it dropped last week (see BUSINESS). Recent court decisions in four states against all four major automakers suggest that any car that fails to measure up to reasonable safety standards may prove highly expensive in terms of damages. Each of the cases involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torts: Expensive Lesson | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...Clarke improved his game quite a bit this spring," says coach Jack Barnaby, "and he's showed he's ready for a regular spot on the singles ladder. He's always had a fine shot, but his frequent errors used to cancel it out. This year, he cut the mistakes to a minimum, and as a result, matured greatly as a tennis player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heisler Elected New Golf Captain; Kawakami Will Lead Tennis Team | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...eleven of the films can be singled out as essential. Steamboat Round The Bend (1935) with Will Rogers is Ford's best thirties film, boasting a magnificent steamboat race that remains one of the most hilarious and breath-taking sequences on film. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) is every bit as great and important as everyone says, as is How Green Was My Valley, Ford's most emotionally powerful film. My Darling Clementine (1946), shot in Monument Valley, pits Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday against the Clantons in an OK Corral fight directed the way Earp told Ford it really...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: John Ford Retrospective | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...said. "I think I'm going to quit this parade. I don't like this stuff one bit...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: New Orleans Jazz Funeral Pounds Gaily for the Dead | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

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