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Word: huckstered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sexes turned out to be one more sorry chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How King Rained on Riggs' Parade | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

Driesell should know. A huckster most of his life, he owes his success to a unique mixture of sweat, salesmanship and show biz. Raised in Norfolk, Va., he won a varsity letter as a third-grader for managing the equipment of the Granby High team. At Duke University, he rode the bench as much as he played but figured it helped him become "a better coach 'cause it made me hungrier." After graduation, he coached the Granby High varsity for the princely salary of $4,000 and became a two-time state champion-in the sale of encyclopedias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hardwood Huckster | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...SEND ME TO PRISON cried the full-page ad in the New York Times, but that last desperate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be in vain. Ralph Ginzburg, huckster-publisher of diverse periodicals (including the defunct Eros, Avant-Garde, Fact and the current Moneysworth) is due to enter federal prison this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Premature Obscenity | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...point or another, Jack had a white wife and an Indian wife, worked as a huckster of phony patent medicines, was a famous gunslinger, a Cheyenne hero, a scout for Gen. Custer, a drunk, a hermit, a pious churchgoer, a great lover, a mule-skinner, a shopowner. He also toyed with suicide...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Films Closing Off of the American West | 2/10/1971 | See Source »

Having achieved such innovations, Manning concludes that he has run "the full cycle" of the law school deanship. "I have now become a fund raiser," he says, "a huckster on the road." For a top scholar on corporate law and an administrator with few peers, a new challenge may be hard to find. But no one who knows him doubts that Manning will succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Stanford's Dean Steps Down | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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