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Word: setups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tantalizing Madonna Lucrezia seems proof against procreation, she is nonetheless a setup for seduction. Espoused by an insufferable clod who wants to get her with child but cannot, she falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Virtue Besieged | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...preferred more direct action. A onetime seaman, he first roiled the San Francisco local in the mid-1950s by assailing its leaders' cozy relations with contractors, later ired the painters' Indiana-based Big Brotherhood by merging two Bay Area locals that covered the same territory-a convenient setup for employers who had been able to play off one against the other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Painters in Blood | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Davies' new line at the least should equal the $150 million in revenue that the three separate lines brought home last year. Though that would put it ahead of the longtime No. 1 U.S. shipper, United States Lines (1965 revenues: $114 million), the new setup is aimed less at U.S. competitors than at foreign opposition-particularly Japanese. In the last year and a half, no fewer than 24 Japanese carriers have merged into half a dozen major lines, become the West Coast shippers' chief rivals along the lucrative transpacific and Far East trade routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Three or Four from One & One | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...Crimson struck for three goals in the opening five minutes of play while holding the Indians scoreless. Steve Neubert sent the stickmen out in front by converting on a quick stick setup from Keith Hutchinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Defeat Lacrosse Team, 9-6 | 5/9/1966 | See Source »

...beleaguered auto industry last week came under stress from a new quarter-with serious implications for its nationwide dealer-franchise setup. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that General Motors and three Chevrolet dealers' associations, in fighting discount-house car sales in the Los Angeles area in 1960-61, had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in "a classic conspiracy in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Open Season | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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