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Word: flake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...financial district's Clive Street, where they set up curb markets and soon moved onto the exchange. Marwaris are India's best bookmakers, so fond of betting that they will wager on the sex of an unborn child or the number of pips in a tangerine flake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The New Crorepathis | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Bruce Johnstone, playing in the number three position, George Duffy at four, Al Lipaky at five, and Herb Wollan at six pulled in the necessary four victories for the varsity. Captain Flake Warren, playing in his last Crimson match in the number one spot, suffered a disheartening loss along with John Livingood at two, and Al Larker, a newcomer, at seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Defeat Indians, 4-3 | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...Captain Flake Warren at number one, and Bob Holton at number three led the varsity with two under par 70's, and Al Lipsky at number five, and Herb Wollan at number six, also contributed wins Holton shot nine three stroke holes as the Crimson averaged 74 strokes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF TEAM BEATS M.I.T. | 4/26/1961 | See Source »

Disaster Area. Even in normally heavy snowfall areas, machines are a good investment. Wisconsin, which usually has plenty of snow in its ski areas, has had hardly a flake this season, despite the snow that buried cities farther south and in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Snow Job | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Along its 10,000 miles of mainline track raced Pennsylvania locomotives pulling empty cars to flake the rust off the rails. Safety crews hustled to inspect thousands of switches. After a twelve-day shutdown, the Pennsylvania Railroad-the nation's biggest freight and passenger line-last week started to roll again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Strike Everybody Lost | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

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