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Word: hipped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Older & Soberer. One thing had not returned-the sloppy drinking of the raccoon-coat and hip-flask era. The post-game crowds gathered nostalgically at their favorite spots-Mory's, the Old Heidelberg and Hofbrau in New Haven; the Yankee Doodle Taproom in Princeton; Metzger's and Floutz's in Ann Arbor. But they saw little student shenanigans. Many of Michigan's coeds broke dates with their steadies to go to strictly nonalcoholic parties with some of the 414 West Point cadets who came with the team. In Madison, where more than once in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Rah, Rah, Rah . | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...week's end, Parliament was hip-deep in a session in which Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor Government would try to complete nationalization already started (steel, civil aviation, health, etc.), reveal its long-term measures for permanent socialization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coffee Cure | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Ticklish Task. In St. Joseph, Mo., police were out to find a missing woman described only as having a scar on her hip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Sunday is racing day in Santiago, and no fooling. Winter & summer, wet or dry, thousands pile out to the plebeian Hipódromo in the morning, and, pausing only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Photo Finish | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Last week another water famine caused a trackside crisis. Santiago's aqueduct broke down, cutting off the water supply for 1,200,000 people, and leaving the Hipódromo without water to develop pictures of a photo finish. Track authorities saved the day. They developed the films in Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Photo Finish | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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