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Word: classiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basketball crown alive. Yale's attack is centered around Kaminsky, a 6-1 forward who is the second leading scorer in the League behind Princeton's Bill Bradley. But unlike Princeton, Yale is not a one-man outfit. Eli guards Denny Lynch and Bob Trupin are one of the classiest backcourt combinations in the League...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Crimson Five Tops Brown, 73-59, Hosts Tough Yale Squad Tonight | 2/29/1964 | See Source »

...Baeza or Ycaza or Valenzuela, and he will grimace when gringo railbirds make it "Bazza," or "Yacca Zacca," or "Vaylinzella." But that will not matter much, because his saddlebags will be stuffed with Yanqui dollars and back home in Panama or Mexico he will be as popular as the classiest matador de toros. The Presidente will invite him to parties, generals will shake his hand, and when he wins the Kentucky Derby, the biggest race of all, his countrymen will drape sweet-smelling flowers around his neck and hoist him to their shoulders and parade him through the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama: The Conquistadores | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...cabs or family cars), they are sure to find their basic blacks outshone by the lady in skirts who rustles out from the kitchen with an air of Pre-Raphaelite elegance. She is a sort of walking conversation piece-at least for the evening, the classiest girl around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Out of the Bedroom | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...third base for the champion New York Yankees stands Cletis Leroy Boyer, 25. At the same hot corner for the National League's revitalized St. Louis Cardinals is Kenton Lloyd Boyer, 30. By his performance so far this season, each could lay claim to a singular honor: classiest third baseman in baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Family Affair | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...with the Duke at Monterey were many of the biggest names in jazz, along with some newcomers: Louis Armstrong, the Modern Jazz Quartet. Gerry Mulligan. John Coltrane, "Cannonball" Adderley, Jimmy Rushing, Ornette Coleman. With the Newport Festival languishing, Monterey can now lay claim to being the country's classiest jazz display case. The musicians seem to like it because they can play what they please and because the audiences are mannerly and serious. In a too-esoteric introduction of Saxophonist Coleman last week, Composer Gunther Schuller remarked earnestly that "he comes to us naked." Snapped a middle-aged lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sweetness & Fruit | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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