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Word: butts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Call 411, Information. After 13 rings the operator will answer. Ask her for John Smith. She will answer: "Eye yum sorry sirr butt they er iz no party of that name listud." You protest. She will answer: "Eye yum sorry...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspite, | Title: How to Make a Local Call | 12/9/1961 | See Source »

When Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt leaned forward to embrace visiting Argentine President Arturo Frondizi in Caracas, one photographer captured the scene from an opportune angle. There, jutting out of Betancourt's pocket, was a pistol butt. The picture raised questions of why a head of state should pack his own pistol. But in Latin America, where the bullet is often more decisive than the ballot, no politician has a better right to fulltime self-protection than Venezuela's embattled chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Troubleshooter | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...toughest leagues in the U.S. This season it is tougher than ever. Lines are brawny and deep, defenses are stanch and sound. But in the offense-minded Southwest Conference, the big news is a corps of fleet-footed backs who can run over and around the most dogged linebacker, butt heads with the best in the country. Among them: > Baylor's bull-necked Ronnie Bull (6 ft., 198 Ibs.), a halfback last season, who was switched to fullback this year to take advantage of his straight-ahead speed. Bull runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.8 sec., has exceptional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Home on the Range | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...firing line at Camp Perry, Ohio, the pigtailed blonde in striped shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Riflewoman | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...Soviet divisions at his elbow, Ulbricht runs his puppet nation from an opulent, chandeliered office in Niederschonhausen Palace, onetime residence of the wife of Frederick the Great, in the Pankow section of Berlin. There he puffs black cigars and barks orders in a guttural Saxonian accent that is the butt of gibes among his unwilling subjects. At day's end he retires to a sumptuous fieldstone house in the residential enclave for Communist bigwigs near Liepnitz Lake, where he, his Communist wife Lotte and a 17-year-old daughter share the comforts of a movie house, ballroom, restaurant, swimming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Puppet Boss | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

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