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Word: pug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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firms make similar vehicles at prices running around $1,400 for the Terra-Tiger, $1,500 for the Amphi-Cat, $1,695 for the Muscateer and $1 ,795 for the Pug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...hero was a bent-nosed ex-pug who seemed too ugly even for character parts. His co-star was a round-eyed windup doll from Iowa whose debut had been a disaster. The director, an impoverished movie critic, made up the script as he went along, and shot much of the film by pushing his photographer around in a wheelchair, screaming instructions at the players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Infuriating Magician | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Bookmakers dismissed the fight as a mismatch and refused to take bets. Still, Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 25, insisted he was really worried by Challenger Zora Folley, a 34-year-old pug who had already been beaten by Sonny Listen, Henry Cooper and Ernie Terrell-all of whom Clay had kayoed. "I'm scared," said Cassius. "Anything can happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: The Impossible Dream | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...pug-nosed Irish-American named Emmett Grogan, 23, The Diggers beg leftovers and handouts from nearby restaurants, butcher shops and groceries, rumble around in a rainbow-painted truck dispensing stew and sympathy. "The whole idea is love," explains Digger Leonard Sussman, 23, who recently quit an insurance job in New Jersey to join the love-Haight mission. "We have a farm in Mendocino given to us by a friend where we'll grow food," he explains, "and other Diggers will go to Chile or Mexico to grow marijuana in the backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco: Love on Haight | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Glue Poisoning. In format, Joan Rivers owes much to the likes of Shelley Berman and Woody Allen, but her style and material, to say nothing of her femininity, make her something special. Snapping out her lines, bobbing and weaving around the stage like a pug in the last throes of brain damage, she is an unindexed handbook on how to be neurotic about practically everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Hot Potato | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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