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Word: racier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pile & Picture Windows. Given a free hand by the Shields brothers. Coll himself took a pencil to Chris-Craft's blueprints. A mechanical engineer with a flair for design, he slimmed the bulging bow line, streamlined the superstructure to give the boats a racier silhouette. To please lady sailors, he installed molded fiber-glass vanities and washbowls in the heads, put pile carpets in the cabins, and picture windows in the galleys. As a result of the new look, Chris-Craft is once again, according to Coll, "at least two years in front of its competitors-and I intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Course for Chris-Craft | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

Every Inch a Sailor (Oscar Brand; Elektra, mono and stereo). Guitarist Brand offers a largely unprintable tour through the racier passages of Navy mythology in a series of songs sung by the fleet in World War II-Guantanamo Bay, Subdivision Nine, Zamboanga. The cast of female characters includes such wonders as Miss VD of Guam: "Admiral Nimitz gave the order/ Better keep your noses clean/ But Miss VD was waiting/ Like a bloody sex machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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