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Word: palming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palm Tree Christmas. Keeping up with the wrapping tastes of the Joneses, Chicago Printed String has found, depends on where the Joneses live. Southerners, who know few white Christmases, have no use for papers depicting snow scenes and jolly snowmen. Floridians like palm trees on their packages; New Englanders will not buy anything with birds on it (Chicago Printed String has never figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Fit to Be Tied | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Miami, Fla.--All Crimson men, alumni and prospective students invited to a Christmas party at the home of Will S. Lindsay, 4425 Sabal Palm Road, Bay Point, Miami, on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 5 p.m. Contact Frank Howard, Dade Federal Building, Miami...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Clubs Meet Over Winter Recess | 12/17/1960 | See Source »

That was easier said than done. And still eager and zippy at week's end, Caroline, with her father in tow, boarded a plane for a trip to Palm Beach. There one, and maybe both, were scheduled to get a little rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Life with Father | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...officer, never came to serve in action, but look back on my single top-secret assignment as the raison d'être of the long years of training in my youth and early manhood. In truth, if only for a moment in time, I held history in the palm of my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Remember Pearl Harbor | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native palm potion. More than 6 ft. tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus. The Fon also regaled Durrell with a pidgin-English account of Queen Elizabeth's tour of the neighboring realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fon's Fauna | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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