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Word: dazzlers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Both are Yalemen, both class of '42. Ben is a scholarship student from a public high school in Providence, Pierce a cosmopolitan product of the church school system. Ben is quiet, competent, dullish; he studies and plods and runs the campus laundry. Pierce is flamboyant, brilliant, a dazzler in every way; he downs his drinks with gusto, drives fast cars and is the spunky campus cutup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bulldog Breed | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...murk of Massachusetts politics, Democrat Foster Furcolo, Yale-educated ('33) lawyer and sometime playwright, was a dazzler. When he was a Congressman (1949-52), a poll of Washington correspondents rated him one of the ten best on Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: From Dazzling to Fizzling | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...case this project did not come off, Nkrumah had another dazzler up his sleeve. Back from a trip to Bamako, capital of poverty-stricken, landlocked Mali (pop. 4,500,000), he proudly announced the formation of another union. Hence forth, he said, the Ghana and Mali parliaments would meet jointly, to promote the growing unity movement in Africa-though the two countries have no common border or language. It was onward and upward for Osagyefo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: The Meddler | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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