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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easiest thing in the world, but one of the most difficult, and that poor people of whatever race are especially suspicious and are often dishonest. Some of these students whose commitment to justice and to social change is not immoderate may conclude that the problems of the rich are after all more interesting as well as more rewarding than those of the poor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riesman on: Types of law students, Law schools and sociology | 10/2/1967 | See Source »

...Lonborg kicked high and fired at Twin's pinch-hitter Rich Rollins, who popped up to shortstop. As the ball disappeared into the glove of Rico Petrocelli, Lonborg disappeared in a swarm of Red Sox fans. Boston had beaten Minnesota, 5-3, for its first first-place finish in 21 years, and the Fenway crowd tore the score from the left-field scoreboard...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Sox Win First Pennant Since '46 Fans Turn Boston Upside Down | 10/2/1967 | See Source »

...underground churches as far more meaningful than Catholicism's official liturgy. Says one nun who belongs to an underground cell in California: "When one member looked up from prayer one evening and said, 'We're all friends,' I knew we had something new and very rich in community here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christianity: The Underground Church | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Promise of Riches. Despite their immense cost, some new towns are prospering, often because the developer acquired strategically placed land decades ago at a bargain price. Around Los Angeles, not only the Irvine Ranch (TIME, Sept. 22) but also Valencia and Janss-Thousand Oaks are being transformed into cities by the families that once only farmed them. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: Thistles in the New Towns | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...that, Stein modernized what had once been a credit operation for the titled few. He brought data processing to Ladbroke's Dickensian clerical department, broadened its roster of clients by including many newly rich who formerly "would not have been welcome even if they usually lost." Noting that in credit betting, "the heavy money tends to come down on the top two or three" favorites in a race-which can put a bookmaker on the short end of the odds-he also began buying up cash "betting shops" (120 to date), the type patronized by smaller bettors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Making Book on a Sure Thing | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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