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Word: teetering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, it bounced right up again to 163.78. The market showed enough bounce, in fact, to make some Wall Streeters wonder whether, after months of sliding, it had finally reached its bottom. No one could yet say for sure, but some fence-sitting traders began to teeter towards the bull side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Bottom? | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...little pizzeria Romualdo on the Piazza della Torretta, a little way from Corso Umberto, you have to wind through narrow streets whose buildings seem to teeter perilously close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pizza with Togliatti | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Well might Nehru and Kripalani look solemn. As India seemed to teeter on the brink of bloodshed, they were returning to New Delhi, to face the Congress organization's toughest problem: to accept or reject the British version of how the Constituent Assembly should be run (TIME, Dec. 16). With Nehru and Kripalani went Gandhi's blessing and ad vice. They would not say whether the Mahatma had recommended concessions that might win Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League to Assembly participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Reprieve from Disaster | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...most lately been slanders and abused by Mr. Wellser's name-calling We're tempted to spell that Willieke after Len Pesses was termed ""Peese and Dave Teeter "Tester...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 2/9/1945 | See Source »

Stanley Wright and Dave Teeter were up state this weekend. They were going full guns with the sweet young things' chief specialist father, but even with the aid of their rank they couldn't get the car. So, on foot, they made the Coral Gables with mutterings about the effectiveness of discipline. No more flashing rank for these...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 10/17/1944 | See Source »

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