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Word: bonanza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choose this day to make my last Will. After all. I am almost 70 years old." He went on to say that "apart from my family, my deep concern is for the Jewish people, saved from Hitler, in Israel." With that, he bequeathed to Israel an artistic bonanza-300 original plasters from which most of his bronze sculptures have been cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great Images for Israel | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...bingo-mad mums, matinees at the Mecca were not enough, and the operators now promise bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting a seat for the afternoon games. The bingo bonanza has been an equal boon to depressed cinema owners; the Rank Organization plans to reopen a dozen shuttered film palaces and install bingo where once Bing reigned supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Fun for Mum | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...wife and four children in an immense English Tudor house on 200 acres outside Dallas, attended by squads of help and surrounded by a collection of abstract art. He drives to work in a Porsche 1600 (one of three family cars), but prefers to travel in a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza that he pilots himself. To house it, he built a private airport two miles from his home -and, finding enough plane-owning neighbors around him, inevitably turned the airstrip into a profitable investment. Clint Jr. lives more modestly for the moment. He, his wife and four children have a three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: Texas on Wall Street | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...bonanza for scientists is Russia, Bainbridge pointed out, is the availability of inexpensive texts. He could have purchased a Russian transistion of a standard American --with all the mistakes of the American edition corrected--for only $3.30. A poorly-made pair of shoes would have cost $27, however...

Author: By Gerald R. Davidson, | Title: Bainbridge Describes Difference In Russian Reception After Cuba | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Last November he ran for the Senate against Johnson (who was also on the ticket as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate) and got 926,000 votes, far more than any Republican candidate for state office in Texas history. This time he barnstormed in a Beechcraft Bonanza, campaigned with a conservative verve that brought Conservative Leader Barry Goldwater into the state on his behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: Old Frontiersman | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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