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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gin Game. In this first work by Playwright D.L. Coburn, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn feint and parry with a sparkling professional finesse polished through decade after decade after decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Year's Best | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...convinced that it is far more profound than chess. Another board-and-counter game, Othello, sells well enough to indicate that its termites are nesting. Master Mind, a code-breaking game devised by an Israeli cryptanalyst, has its own fanatics. From Rumanian Jews in Israel comes a kind of gin rummy played with tiles, variously called Rummi-brick and Rummikub; one manufacturer in Korea has picked up the game and expects to ship 100,000 by the year's end to sell at up to $40 a set. And the Scrabble Crossword Game, thought to be a children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...through the wilderness-"doing an honest day's scouting." As a director of a group of the state's local sports clubs, he works to promote environmental legislation. He marvels, "When you look at a virgin forest after it rains, water runs through the streams clear as gin." Adds Shreve: "I hope and pray my son can enjoy the outdoors the way I have and live as a free person. This may be one of the last places he might do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Slices of the Good Life | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...Carre knows it very well, indeed. The Honourable Schoolboy showcases le Carre in top writing form, recreating the steamy, fetid cities of Indochina and the chummy, gin-soaked air of a British club with genuine flair. Moreover, his marvelous ear for dialogue has developed an unprecedented sharpness: unlike the characters in his previous books, the Americans in The Honourable Schoolboy not only speak differently from the British, but each character boasts a subtle regional accent, as well. No one sounds like Perry Mason, either--which alone sets the book apart from a shelf-full of other British espionage tales...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Complimentary, My Dear leCarre | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Meantime, Carter has stirred the martini lovers, admittedly depleted since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, a two-before-dinner man whose evening blending (4 parts gin, 1 part vermouth) was a dramatic triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: In Defense of the Martini | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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