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Word: sleighs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claus out on the department store campaign trail? While Santa is out doing business, his wife is back home in the kitchen baking Christmas cookies and looking after the gifts. That's her place, she's led to believe. She doesn't even ride in the sleigh the big night. If she did, she probably wouldn't get to hold the reins...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...week later, my father sat down with me and explained to me that there was indeed no Santa. It had just been a game. That Christmas Eve I took my first sleeping pill. I didn't bother pecking out the window before getting in bed to see if the sleigh were flying through the air. And I just put the potholders on my mother's rack after I finished them. My childhood had been torn asunder...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Three years ago, he toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist-and was severely chastised by Conductor Leonard Bernstein when he set off a rack of sleigh bells out of tempo, ruining the first movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. More recently he rode the high trapeze for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and, as a one-line badman in a yet-to-be-released western (Rio Lobo), he was shot and killed by John Wayne, who never could decide whether the tall (6 ft. 4 in.) bit player's name was Plimpleton, Pembleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: George Plimpton: The Professional Amateur | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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