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Word: nelle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoity was the 19-year-old Australian that she had decided to quit the touring Australian team for her own private tour, and was busily engaged in a feud with Team Manager Nell Hopman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Miss Moffitt | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...varsity's shooting, especially that of Pete Kelley, was off the mark tonight. Brown was below par in the first half also, and the only difference between the two came on the Crimson's early edge in rebounding. Brown's Gary Nell was hot in the early minutes, but Harvard maintained a two to four point lead throughout...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Varsity Quintet Loses Slim Lead, Drops Its Seventh Straight Game | 3/3/1962 | See Source »

Newton N. Minow, 34, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Hours after he had explained to his family about the new job in Washington, Lawyer Minow overheard eight-year-old Daughter Nell conclude her bedside prayers with ". . . and God bless Mommy and Mr. Chairman." Adds Mr. Chairman: "I can only say amen. I've got a tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Administration: A Parcel of Appointments | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Alcestis (TIME, Dec. 19), Soprano Eileen Farrell, 40, left her fans cheering a reputation instead of a performance: the fabled power and warmth were there, but the voice wobbled shrilly in the upper registers. Last week, appearing in some of the Met's fastest company (Mezzo Nell Rankin, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Robert Merrill), Singer Farrell made her second Met start-the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Blonde-wigged and almost wobble-free, she supplied the spectacular singing her audience had come to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Second Start | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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