Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jump in the fault and out event, Germany's Olympic Champion Hans Winkler, 32, had cleared the ten jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing 36.9 seconds to beat Winkler and win her first international trophy...
...crowds were beginning to swarm across Manhattan toward the trains and buses and subways that would take them home. But for pretty Diane Lawson, 30, it was time to get to work. Diane, a pert, yare redhead, began to patrol the streets. When she spotted a likely prospect, she stopped him with a time-honored approach: "Pardon me, but may I speak to you a minute...
Born. To Martha Wright, 32, pert CBS singer and disk jockey, holder of the record number of Broadway performances (1,047) as Nurse Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Manhattan Restaurant Owner Mike Manuche, 37: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick Gregory. Weight...
...panting, Hollywood style. In the book, precociously world-weary Dominique ho-hums her way through a pair of parallel love affairs, finding no lasting happiness or pleasure in either of them-only a wan, temporary escape from ennui. But Hollywood's Dominique (French Actress Christine Carere) is as pert and wholesome as a cheerleader in love with the football captain. So what if she spends a week on the Riviera with her beau's uncle? She really falls in love with him, doesn...
...Thin Man (Fri. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). Though his own private eye is often trained on blondes, Nick Charles (Peter Lawford) has a pert wife named Nora (Phyllis Kirk) to whom he is professedly faithful, and a wire-haired terrier named Asta who is faithful to him. Genteel and wryly suave, Nick seldom tangles physically with the blackmailers, assassins and sundry evildoers whom he ferrets out with one hand while reaching for a martini with the other. He rarely finishes a drink during the half-hour program, giving the impression that he is a frustrated alcoholic...