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Word: knottier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern California, the odd-looking knobs that can be seen protruding just below the kneecaps and on the top of the feet of suntanned surfboarders are generally recognized as a status symbol, the mark of a practiced wave rider. The medical significance of the strange lumps is a knottier problem, and West Coast doctors are now seeing more and more evidence of such surf board trauma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: The Knee & the Board | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Down from the Peak. Cross and Abernethy will have far knottier problems to sleep on. One reason why AMC was able to bounce back from a perilous 2% of the market to its present 7% was that it had adequate production facilities. But to achieve its goal of producing 700,000 cars in 1964, AMC must expand its plants, which are already uneconomic for even the 485,000 cars it is producing this year. AMC may be handicapped by its dependence on outside suppliers for many components, since it is thus less able to control costs than its rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Life Without Father | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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