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Word: fianc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Widows. To all appearances, their appetites are unlimited. In a short story, Bank Clerk Malay Roychowdhury, 25, tells of a starving poet who first devours his fiancée, then his poetry notebook, then a building and Calcutta's huge Howrah Bridge. A poem by Schoolteacher Ghose crows that "I impregnated three widows at a time, and now I am lying in bed happy. What next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Hungry Generation | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Sandra plays the granddaughter of a dying plutocrat (Chevalier) who insists on seeing her fiancé before he "joins the Big Board up yonder." Since her fiance (Williams) is fogbound in Boston, Sandra seizes the first presentable passerby (Goulet) and tells her grandfather that this is the man she loves. Turns out he is, too, but it takes Sandra 95 minutes to find out she wasn't lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smight Makes Right | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...Lady Bird's, says, "Bird wasn't accepted into our clique. There were 18 of us girls, and we couldn't get Claudia to cooperate on anything. She didn't date at all. To get her to go to the high school graduation banquet, my fiancé took Bird as his date and I went with another boy. She didn't like to be called Lady Bird, so we'd call her Bird to get her little temper going. My mother would call her Cat. She'd say, 'All right, pull your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: The First Lady Bird | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...have taken to heart the Baltimore cops' advice to run when attacked [June 26] and am now vigorously practicing wind sprints. However, one difficulty has arisen: my fiancée, who is addicted to wearing high heels, is hard pressed to comprehend that when trouble appears I shall be forced to abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, 24, daughter of BOAC's late chief, Sir Gerard d'Erlanger, prefers the nickname Minnie. Her fiancé, Winston Spencer Churchill, 23, on the other hand, strenuously resists Winnie, and as anyone who has tangled with his grandfather can testify, Churchills are stubborn. Randolph's Oxford-educated son has other family traits: 1) a fondness for travel and journalism that last year sent him on a four-month tour of 40 African and Middle Eastern countries, will result in a book, First Journey, due in the U.S. in January, 2) freckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 26, 1964 | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

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