Word: romps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inefficient sectors of the economy as agriculture, railroads, coal and electricity. Hoping to make those sectors less unprofitable, the government boldly raised prices for their products and services. With that, the newly powerful local managers began falling all over themselves to hike their own prices-and the inflationary romp...
Lucky Debonair is the best of a bumper crop of California three-year olds. He has won five of eight races this year, and his most impressive performance was a four-length romp in the 1-1-8 mile Santa Anita Derby. It is tempting to pick him to win Saturday, but Lucky Debonair is no Swaps, and our Rule Number Two says that California horses don't finish first at Churchill Downs...
Paroled in 1943 after serving only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...
...Whores Came Out to Play Tennis is a surrealistic love set: Arthur Kopit 6, Drama 0. Flashy and cute rather than craftsmanlike, Playwright Kopit lobs up pseudo profundities that he avoided in his fanciful Oh Dad, Poor Dad romp. The dramatic penury of the current play may be suggested by the fact that it relies for its climax on an offstage sound effect of prepubescent outhouse humor...
...American Bill Bradley led the Princeton romp with 27 points. The Tigers were never in trouble against the Atlantic Coast Conference champs; they grabbed a 27-16 halftime lead and coasted the rest...