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Word: dimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Belief. When a pro aces, it's kind of ho-hum. The world-record holder of holes in one, Art Wall has 35 aces to his credit after 16 years on the tour-and has yet to make a dime out of any of them. "I don't even talk about it," he says morosely. Neither does Jerry Krueger, a California pro, who got his fourth in last week's Bob Hope Desert Classic. The trouble was that he shot it on the seventh hole in the third round. The Chrysler people were offering a convertible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Heaven in the Cup | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Even so, the Canadians should still make themselves a nice piece of change. Last year the mint sold 1,750,000 coin sets, containing a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar and silver dollar. To make it worthwhile, the Canadians charged $3 for the $1.91 value. This year they will sell 2,000,000 sets at a marked-up price of $4. Because so many buyers are Americans, it will mean a windfall in U.S. currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Nice Piece of Change | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Married. Woolworth ("Woolie") Donahue, 51, Manhattan man about town, heir to a $15-odd million slice of the five-and-dime fortune; and Mary Hartline Carlson, 37, blonde and bouncy bandleader on TV's Super Circus in the mid-1950s; both for the third time; at Woolie's estate in Calverton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 8, 1965 | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...official value: 4,500 to the U.S. dollar on the free market v. a government-controlled rate of 45. At the annual congress of the Civil Servants Union, government clerks demanded a raise. They had cause; a bachelor clerk today earns only 450 rupiah, or one thin dime, a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: The Bamboo Bomb | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Minuteman (looking back): We are the Minuteman and Minutewoman. We're waiting for the MDC, and this is our dime to call Mrs. Finley. We forgot our whistle...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Waiting for the MDC | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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