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Word: dicey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such shoestring operators are responsible for most of the third level's harum-scarum reputation, but things get a bit dicey at times even on the better commuter lines. Cleveland-based Wright and TAG airlines of Detroit accounted for all of 29 ground alerts at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport during one recent twelve-month period. Eight of the alerts involved closing the airport and rolling out the fire engines, though there were no accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: The White-Knuckle Carriers | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...secretly harbored prima facie evidence he wonders if he just might not be a loser after all. A successful management consultant of "sixty odd," Worthington decides with metaphorical directness to examine the management -and meaning-of his own life. His method, however, is indirect and discursive, dicey and erratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cozzens Against the Grain | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Admittedly, it is a dicey proposition: Daphne is hardly escapist fare. Sandy plays the suicidal widow of a movie star; her co-star plays a man who has just run over his son in a driveway accident. But Sandy, chewing over and blowing her lines at rehearsals, is so hyped up about the Boston opening Sept. 4 that some fear she may blow all the fuses. "Marty," she asked Manager Martin Bregman at one desperate juncture last week, "how much do we lose if we quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Talent Without Tinsel | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead of its nearest com petition, the American Football League game of the week. But filming wildlife in the veld is dicey business at best. Expeditions have fanned out to Africa, India, South America, Australia, Alaska and Canada for this season's footage, and 12,000 ft. of film are required for every 1,000-ft. program: "An animal does not usually do the same thing twice," explains Meier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fang & Fin Hour | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...chest proves to be empty. After a bitter, final attempt at finding the little girl buried in Mumbo's hulk, Dicey falls ill. When the Maltese discovers her, she is mysteriously bruised and barely conscious, muttering: "It's all gone, was it ever there? No, never there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tells of Childhood | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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