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Word: spells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hochtief seems to spell success in any language. War-torn Germany was a rebuilder's dream, and Hochtief's sales rose sixteenfold from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Above, Below & Everywhere | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...would be hard to find fault with any one of the propositions advanced by the San Francisco Chronicle in a series of promotion ads. But the Chronicle was unable-or unwilling-to go one long step farther, to spell out what a great newspaper is, rather than what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Top U.S. Dailies | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Edmund G. Brown, governor of California, is an extraordinary politician. You know that he is a politician the instant he shakes your hand, and asks where you come from and how you spell your name...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Governor Brown | 1/9/1964 | See Source »

...blind Negro woman signs her land away for a federal project and is conned out of her money by a young opportunist of her own race. Is he the devil? The reader comes to think so and to share the dark fears of a superstitious old woman's spell-weaving mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home-Grown Exotics | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...jury, but made no reference to it. Finally, he unwrapped the package slowly as the jury watched in horrified fascination. If the artificial leg he revealed was an anticlimax, Belli immediately rebuilt the tension: he dropped the limb into the lap of a shocked juror and proceeded to spell out exactly how it would feel to wear the contraption for a lifetime. The award to his client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: Belli for the Defense: A Flamboyant Advocate | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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