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Word: rakishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles -you've heard those kind of rumors all the time about Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post," Ramparts Editor Warren Hinckle III quipped at a meeting of magazine editors in Manhattan last week. Later the 30-year-old editor, who manages to look at once rakish and boyish, appeared in a red shirt, Hush Puppies and a tattered eye patch,* to tell reporters in Ramparts' offices in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco: "The magazine is bankrupt; the phones are out; there's no booze in the closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Manning the Ramparts | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...virtually bald, "as befits my intellectual proclivities," but sported a "rakish goatee, a vanity I allow myself because I've been told the carrot color enhances my olive complexion. Addicted to loud sports shirts he despised formalities and shunned pretensions. "Just call me God," he told his subjects in heaven. At the same time, he was rather touchy about Christmas. "Nobody, I notice, ever makes a fuss over my birthday," he once complained in his diary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Word: God's Diaries | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...imagine for themselves the scenes of war as recounted in the often melodramatic reports of broadcasting journalists. In the early days of the Viet Nam war, the carryover of this bravura style was evident in the TV reporters who, packing pearl-handled revolvers and cocking their helmets at a rakish angle, would instruct some G.I.s to fire aimlessly into the bush so that it seemed as though they were in the midst of battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NEWSCASTING: Mortars at Martini Time | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...fringe of grey around his temples-not at all like the dashing, bearded Che of old. Then from the film came pictures of the same man in the guerrilla jungle camps. Gradually, in sequential frames of the film, a transformation occurs. He abandons the glasses, dons a rakish cap, sprouts a beard. Over a period of weeks he begins to look remarkably like Che when he came out of Cuba's Sierra Maestra with Castro in 1959. The one element that makes the pictures current is a woman at his side; she was an Argentine guerrilla companion nicknamed Tania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Elusive Guerrilla | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...rakish, talented devils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1967 | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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