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Word: scots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crossroads. Its sales of industrial chemicals were sagging, but its whisky sales (Vat 69, Johnnie Walker,, Haig & Haig, Black & White) were soaring. Deciding not to fight the trend, the company last week chose as its new chairman an old-line whisky man, Ronald S. Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more Scotch. A onetime Scottish all-star rugby player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Personal File: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Bennett the elder was a crabbed Scot who founded the Herald in 1827. The newspapers of the time were timid and dull, sycophants to power, lively only when used by their editors for inter-paper squabbling. Bennett, armed with the heretical notion that a newspaper should be "impudent and intrusive," invaded two untouched news areas-finance and society-exposing the market swindles of the moneyed and reporting with little respect the social pretensions of their wives. On dull days, he twitted blue noses; one editorial guffaw at unmentionability taunted : "Petticoats-petticoats-petticoats; there, you fastidious fools, vent your mawkishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Find Livingstone | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Leading the rubber planters in the difficult transition is Sir John Hay. 74. who is known in Malaya as a hard Scot with a soft streak. The last of the colonial tuan besars (big sirs). Sir John has been a dominant figure in the rubber world for almost half a century. The eleven plantations of his Guthrie Estates Agency Ltd.. totaling 200.000 acres, are the most advanced in Malaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Last Big Sir | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...Arthur, Conservative member of Parliament for the Scot-constituency of Perth and East Perthshire, left the Summer School's International Seminar last and returned to London to vote on a motion of censure introduced against his party by Labour Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Conservative M.P. Returns to Vote on Censure Motion | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

...academy is not letting doolies off scot-free. To the hectoring question, "Mister, what is your altitude?" they must still recite the laborious answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Better Days for Doolies | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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