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Word: dinking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There will be no regulations on weekends, except for the Saturday football games when 'dink' and button regulations will be strictly enforced...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

...center of attention for most of the week was a small, bronzed man whose athletic feats were relatively modest. He was Dink Templeton, track coach at Stanford from 1921 to 1939, whom varsity coach Bill McCurdy, one of his former pupils, calls "the greatest track coach going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Templeton Visits McCurdy, Aids Track Men | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...James B. ("The Silver Fox") Bowler, 82, oldtime Chicago West Side ward boss, alderman (except for two brief intervals) from 1906 to 1953, and U.S. Congressman from 1953; in Chicago. Elder statesman of the city's Democratic machine, Bowler shared power all through the boodle days with "Hinky Dink" Kenna and his close friend "Bathhouse John" Coughlin, whose insurance business Bowler took over when Coughlin died (1938), once maintained his own rifle-equipped "army" to hold out against gangster attempts to invade and take over his ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...lackluster practice meets at Berkeley, Calif. Star Sprinter Bobby Morrow finished a puffing third in one 100-meter dash, fourth in another, while University of California Alternate Leamon King has twice tied the pending world's record with 10.1-sec. wins. Said U.S. Track and Field Coach "Dink" Templeton, complaining that some of the boys apparently haven't trained all summer: "Unless they show improvement, there will be some astonishing upsets at Melbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Ivory Tower (Gale Storm; Dot). Another waltz in the rinky-dink style that seems to go with the rock-'n'-roll idiom. The simple-minded but bestselling message: "It's cold, so cold, in your ivory tower, and warm, so warm in my arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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