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Word: carats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welcome to Hard Times is a movie composed entirely of other movies. Every character has been pretested in scores of scenarios: the evil gunslinger; the aging lawman, poor but honest; the frightened townspeople; prostitutes with guaranteed 24-carat hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tired Palomino | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...remain a bachelor," he said after his 1964 divorce. "I've struck out twice and I've learned." Now he's differently inclined. "I wasn't in love when I said that," he explained, "and I am now." In Manhattan, he slipped a five-carat diamond ring on the finger of Actress Connie Stevens, 28, Broadway's current Star-Spangled Girl, reported that they will be married as soon as Connie's divorce from Actor James Stacy comes through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1967 | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...week one John Wina was asked to bend over and submit to the routine check when he showed up in Kinshasa fresh from the mining country. The law's probing finger produced six capsules of white diamonds. Kassanda's cops some how felt they had missed a carat or two. Over Wina's shrill protests, they applied a purgative, and voila, as if by magic, there suddenly appeared 60 more plastic capsules containing no less than 1,500 carats of diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Long Finger of the Law | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Foreman is worth every carat. Recently he took on a Houston father who had gunned down his stepdaughter's teen-age lover in plain view of witnesses. Foreman excoriated the dead sinner, hauled a church pulpit in front of the jury, delivered a sermon on teen-age vice, and tearfully recited a Sir Walter Scott poem about "pious fathers." The father was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Mesmerism in Miami | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Clay's other opponents have been subjected to frothing mouthfuls of abuse. Patterson got the same treatment at first: "He couldn't out-punch my ninety-year-old grandmother," Clay used to say about the former champion. "He is the only fighter I know with a one-hundred carat crystal...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: The Rabbit Will Fall in Two In Tonight's Ring Rendezvous | 11/22/1965 | See Source »

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