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Word: spells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American 31% to $33.75, Pan American 35% to $23.88 and Northwest 36% to $86.50. TWA shares dropped from $90.75 to $50.63 for a 44.2% loss and Braniff's sank 44.8% from $84.25 to $46.50. Despite their soaring prospects for the long run, the airlines are in a spell of turbulent financial weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Straining to Pay for Tomorrow | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...Ambassador. Serves him right. Hope has been breaking up audiences for nearly 50 years. Even his fellow showfolk, notoriously envious of talent, get practically blubbery about him. "You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S," says Lucille Ball. Adds Joey Bishop: "I'd like to get the applause at the end of my show that he gets before he opens his mouth." Woody Allen, himself a gag writer as well as performer, says: "He has been a terrific influence on every standup, one-line monologist. The thing which makes him great just can't be stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Harvard goes into the Christmas breathing spell with a 2-1 record just as it did last year. The next meet is with Brown on Jan. 10 in Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Bounce Back To Down Middies, 66-47 | 12/18/1967 | See Source »

...Maybe I am just an old fuddy-duddy but they all spell risqué to me. At 38 years of age, my favorite recent movie was Mary Poppins. I can always stay home, watch TV and hope that another Walt Disney will some day be resurrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...spell Borges generates in person with directness and simplicity is felt by the reader entering his fiction. A representative invention, "The Circular Ruins," begins...

Author: By Jack Davis, | Title: Jorge Luis Borges | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

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