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Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players only a few cigarettes and an occasional glass of beer, draws the line at whisky ("Any player that drinks it will be fined"). Auerbach dutifully drives his Celtics in frequent practice sessions; once, when he detected loafing, he sent the champions ignominiously puffing up and down the cliff-steep aisles of Boston Garden. But Auerbach himself is quick to admit that his coaching has worked no miracles: "Remember this-I've got some damn good horses." He has indeed. Guard Bob Cousy is basketball's finest little man (6 ft. 1 in., 175 lbs.). In his tenth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball's Best | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

Watching through binoculars, they radioed instructions as their colleagues gingerly lowered archaeologists on ropes toward the black mouths of caves part way down the cliff. Says Aharoni: "It was like trying to put thread into a needle blindfolded while someone directs you over the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hideouts in the Wadi | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose contributes The Cruel Day, a play set in revolution-torn Algeria. With Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Cliff Robertson, Phyllis Thaxter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near the Finch garage. She rushed out, saw Barbara lying on the garage floor. "Then Dr. Finch came rushing up to me. He grabbed my head and pushed it against the wall several times, as hard as he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Doctor's Dilemma | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

Third Man on the Mountain. This cliff-climbing tour of the Alps is apparently designed to teach the kiddies that they can shinny up the Matterhorn much more easily than any creak-kneed adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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