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Word: crookeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the Kennedys have always been very good at is piling up huge majorities for themselves in state-wide elections. All Robert Kennedy's failures in New York will mean nothing next to the margin he will amass in winning re-election in 1970--something like two million votes. All...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Humphrey-Kennedy: Round 1 | 3/17/1966 | See Source »

Every incoming President of the Philippines has taken office with a vow to clean up the corruption that plagues the nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Crusade in Manila | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

James Joyce demonstrated among other things that even in the works of a genius the stream of consciousness not infrequently turns out to be a Mississippi of malarkey, but the lesson seems to have been lost upon Giuseppe Berto, a well-known Italian novelist (Il Cielo è Rosso) whose obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Missing the Point | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

(2 of 11) alone was 125%) and hard to get that Spaniards dubbed them "haigas"-a slang term indicating that their owners were either very rich, very powerful or very crooked. Last year 170,000 vehicles came off the assembly lines of seven separate factories in five Spanish cities, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Awakening Land | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

She can wear her traditional cloak because she is so well designed for it. Her old crooked streets, streets which cry out for little specialty shops and snug restaurants, leave the high-rise mobile visionaries agog. She still can't understand how they accomplished Pru, much less Government Center. Whereas...

Author: By Darcy Pinketon, | Title: Deck the Halls With Boston Charlie | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

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