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Word: prettier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilhelmina's Diadem. Beatrix herself had never looked happier, more poised-or prettier. Dressed in a white silk gown with a 15-ft. train, a huge diamond brooch, and the same pearl-and-diamond diadem that her grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, had worn, she was first married to Claus in a private civil ceremony by Burgomeister Gijsbertus van Hall. Then, to the strains of Bach and Handel, the couple exchanged rings and "I do's" before 3,000 guests at the Westerkerk. Holding hands, both were so relaxed that they burst into giggles at one point during the sermon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Orange Blossoms | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...line right wing Bob Fredo came up with a steal of his own. He took the puck down the right side and flipped it past a suddenly empty-handed Thornton from about eight feet. The score was none too beautiful, but for Harvard at that moment, there was nothing prettier than the bright red light behind the cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Squad Mushes Huskies, 3-1 | 12/9/1965 | See Source »

...Congratulations for the new dimension you have added to political reporting. J.V.I. is not only prettier, he is purer, smoother and gooder than anything else around. Thank you, Modern Screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 26, 1965 | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...wearing sack-cloth and ashes. "I'm really broken up. I want to know what she looks like," walled the young lady on bells at Edmands House. Another Cliffie had already seen a picture of the new Mrs. Beatle, and offered that she thought Ringo could have picked a prettier mate. "But I guess it's okay; they've been going together for a long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ringo's Gone; Cliffies Sob and Shrug | 2/13/1965 | See Source »

...closed and cemented over its producing wells. It has converted the tidal slough on which they stood into a posh residential marina called Huntington Harbour, which sits on the Pacific Ocean south of Los Angeles. Like more and more U.S. companies, it has discovered that land can pay a prettier profit than almost any other investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Lure of the Land | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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