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Word: owings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie Ravenel or the Mark Mullin, who just keeps going ahead in athletics with an interminable drive, determination, and winning enthusiasm for his sport all the way through school. To these people, athletics is a way of life. "My whole life has centered around athletics," Revenel said recently. "I owe everything to sports." He is the first Class Marshal this year, has received a $5,000 scholarship from Corning Glass Company to travel around the world, has been named co-recipient of the Bingham Award for this year, and has been admitted into Harvard Business School. That...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Myth of the 'Jock' and Intellectual Snobbery | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

...whose hair I could work up into curls and chignons." Shortly after World War II he was discovered by the Begum Aga Khan, having already won a local reputation as "The King of the Egg Shampoo"; the Begum passed him on to the Duchess of Windsor. Says Alexandre: "I owe everything to her. It was she who set me up and sent me my first customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Tribute to Louis XIV | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...cater to the nation's whims-you must also serve the nation's needs. The people own the air. They own it as much in prime evening time as they do at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. For every hour that the people give you, you owe them something. I intend to see that your debt is paid with service . . . Never have so few owed so much to so many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The People Own the Air | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...light-the new curfew seems doomed to be broken. Valentin, owner of one of Madrid's leading restaurants, will be one of the first to break it. "I'll pay all the fines I have to," he says, "but I won't close at midnight. I owe it to my public. If the fines are too big, I'll ask the United States for a foreign aid loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Night Must Fall | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

What is unexpected is the sort of debt last week's rioters owe the Cambridge City Police. For these gentlemen--many called in from their off-time--conducted themselves throughout both evenings with restraint, and their good sense and equally good nature kept the riot from developing into something far uglier than what it was: undergraduates revelling in spring and the diploma issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Policeman's Lot | 5/2/1961 | See Source »

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