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Word: puffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps most missed will be Goldie Hawn, that dizzy cream puff who is constantly blowing her lines. Because of her Laugh-In exposure, she landed a feature role in her first movie, Cactus Flower, in which she appears with Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau. Next come two more movies and two television specials that, swears Goldie, will be the last. She seems to mean it when she says, "A movie is serious business-it's more important than a television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Laugh-In Dropouts | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...rawboned soldier-cowpoke was no longer raw or bony. The eyes had begun to puff, the flesh was settling. The walk away from the camera was a little too distinctive. From the back, the Wayne Levi's sometimes resembled two small boys fighting in a tent. His eleven-year marriage to Texas-born Josephine Saenz had quietly clopped off into the sunset; she got custody of their four children. After a stretch of popularity, Wayne looked less a Duke than a commoner. He was No. 33 on the list of box-office stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...competition for primacy among the TV networks may not be as exciting as the Super Bowl or the Powder Puff Derby. But over the years it has drawn a substantial crowd of fans who follow the record books. The latest figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry: Standings | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...could the novices estimate the strength of their reefers. They guessed right eight times out of nine on the dummy cigarette, and six times on the mild reefer, but eight out of nine guessed "mild" when they were really getting a puff with a big clout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Effects of Marijuana | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Sometime during the third quarter of The Game tomorrow afternoon, a middle-aged woman sitting near the front of the Harvard University Band section will stand up to the cheers of the band, puff gamely on a cigar, and collapse into the arms of a bandsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lady With a Cigar? She's 'Mom' to the Band | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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