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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hugh Sargent and Juan Rodriguez handled the fullback positions until the second Yale goal. Rodriguez saved one goal with a beautiful defensive butt when Briggs was out of position. But he and Sargent were no match for the Yale forwards who continually broke through for shots at Briggs and Fischer...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Drops Last Game to Yalies, 3 to 0 | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

...Chicago for his own record company and cutting some songs with the star of a rival network-ABC's Don (Breakfast Club) McNeill. "It's like being married to a woman for 20 years," said Godfrey mournfully, "and then coming home and finding a cigar butt in the ashtray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Humble or Nothing | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Life Insurance Co. last week estimated that it was saving $250,000 a year through a policy of simplifying its paperwork. It began by translating the legal gobbledygook familiar to most policies into English the average person could understand, eliminating most of the "fine print" which has been the butt of many insurance jokes. When a farmer complained of the time he had lost getting a Mutual form notarized, the company discovered that it was needlessly having 75 different forms notarized, junked that policy too, and is saving policyholders $80,000 a year in notary fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...picked up a tip that the cardinal was harboring fugitive revolutionaries. Arteaga, who had gone to bed, tried to send them away, but the agents forced their way into his private apartments, and in the scuffle a jittery cop laid the cardinal's forehead open with a gun butt. Finding no fugitives, the police rushed their victim to the hospital and tried to hush up the outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Cardinal's Forehead | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...jumble of benches Christie stood watching them, bald and spectacled, looking exactly like the 55-year-old, $23 a-week clerk he was. One of seven children, he had been spoiled by his mother, a talented musician, bullied by his father. Early in life sexual immaturity made him the butt of girl-friend jokes. In World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman but was caught opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a Strange Country | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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