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Word: straights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good dry 14 to 1, with the trend strongly in favor of more gin and less vermouth. Riding this trend, the House of Schenley last week was busily promoting the driest martini so far. Called the "Naked Martini," it is simply a straight gin, cut to 80 proof to make it taste a little less fiery than the usual 86-to-94-proof variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Drier & Drier | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...names of their parliamentary candidates in 630 local constituencies, the voters of the British Isles last week gave Maurice Harold Macmillan, 65, a smashing personal triumph in one of the most decisive and significant political battles of the postwar era. Macmillan had led his party to its third straight victory and doubled its majority in the House of Commons, a feat without parallel in the annals of British politics. Overcoming a slashing Labor Party challenge, he had won his own mandate to rule Britain for the next five years. He had won, too, the right to speak for England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Art of the Practical | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...straight, stock-in-trade western fare. From all over the courtroom, angry cattlemen glowered at the captured rustler. And the rustler himself, a bull-necked hombre who liked heavy gambling and fancy women, was perfectly cast. All that marred the illusion was the scene of the trial-not Dodge City but Düsseldorf-and the repeated references to the rustler's favorite steed: a Mercedes 300 limousine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Mercedes on the Range | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...straight Columbia triumphs followed in the next six years, as Harvard football plunged to an all-time low. But the long years of suffering were nearly at an end. In 1955, the Crimson soundly whipped the Lions, 21 to 7, in the rain and mud at Baker Field. Benham engineered the varsity's defeat in 1956, but with his graduation passed an era in Columbia football...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harvard vs. Columbia, 1877-1959 | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...will have a chance to vindicate itself this afternoon when it meets Penn and Columbia at New York's Van Cortlandt Park. Last Saturday the Crimson went down to the worst defeat of coach Bill McCurdy's reign, and Penn has the potential to hand the varsity its second straight loss...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harriers Oppose Penn, Columbia In Triangular Meet at New York | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

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