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Word: nilson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVEN, CONN, May 9--The varsity golf squad lost a close match to Yale this afternoon, 4-3. George Duffy shot the low Harvard round of 73 in beating Eric Nilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golfers Fall to Yale | 5/10/1962 | See Source »

Eventually, a middle-aged American engineer named Greg Nilson, sightseeing in Hong Kong with his wife, is suckered into smuggling the weapons to anti-Communist rebels in Indonesia. The amateur gunrunner winds up in an Indonesian prison that is not at all sanitary, and when rebels begin to ventilate the building with antitank guns, Nilson is hardly consoled by the thought that the affair will make dandy cocktail conversation back in Wilmington-if he ever gets back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amble into Fear | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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