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Word: homelies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornerback Johnny Sample spent five minutes alone in the stadium washroom, kneeling in prayer. And Joe's mother was at home saying the rosary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Impossible Reality | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...which makes the Polaris snowmobile, was among the first drivers to arrive in Fairbanks, but he got lost in the dense ice fog. Officials at the finish line, who could hear his machine growling aimlessly around the side streets, finally sent out a runner to try to guide him home with a flare. Another contestant gone astray startled onlookers by barreling across the finish line from the opposite direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Games: The Coldest and Crudest | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Humiliating Postures. It was on a day like any other on the Long Island: the trains were unheated, overcrowded and late. While riding home at night, the four decided that their patience had run out. When the conductor came around, they informed him that they would show him their tickets only when they started to receive better service from the railroad. In response, Conductor Charles Farnsworth signaled for the train to stop at the next station. All four were arrested on an obscure misdemeanor charge, "theft of service." Then they were taken in a police paddy wagon to Brooklyn night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrests: Ticket Trouble | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...biggest sale so far: a brooch containing an 84-carat, square-shaped Tanzanite surrounded by diamonds. The price and purchaser are Tiffany secrets. Says Platt: "She is a very discerning collector of fine jewelry, so we can rest happy in the knowledge that our stone has found a good home." Wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gems: New and Hard to Come By | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...role with the kind of craft and authority that make for supporting-actor awards. Douglas, fitted out in a push-broom mustache and dyed hair, is the most convincing, perhaps because the role of a prideful, aging bullock who clings to an old persona hits astonishingly close to home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Black Handiwork | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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