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Word: mutt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat, and a terribly dignified monkey who impersonates live diplomats. The distinctly chilly climax occurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Facial Farceur | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...their increasing versatility, machines lack a vital quality that even the lowliest mutt possesses: they cannot understand their master's voice. This situation may soon change. Last week International Business Machines Corp. demonstrated a small, innocent-looking gadget that may some day permit machines to follow spoken orders, and even eavesdrop on human conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shoebox Is Listening | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...Studios. In addition, the Big Three are also testing several experimental smaller-than-compact models to compete against the European imports. Ford is farthest along, already has a proven power plant in the aluminum block, four-cylinder engine that runs its Jeep-like military vehicle called the Mutt, is trying it out on a 96-in. wheelbase. But neither Ford nor G.M. nor Chrysler plans to introduce its midget cars for 1961. First, Detroit wants to see how well the current crop of compacts do against the foreign cars. So far they are doing fine. On the latest reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Compacts to the Fore | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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