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Word: tillers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably even trickier than sailing a twelve-meter, and a greater test of individual skill. Instead of eleven trained men ready to leap to his command, the skipper has only himself and perhaps one small shivering boy as crew. The slightest shift of weight or twitch of the tiller can make the difference between victory and defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Frostbitten | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...directors picks up a shabby little streetwalker named Rosemary (Nadja Tiller). ''My first big break!" she sighs happily, and so it turns out. Soon she is set up as a grosse cocotte with a fancy flat and a flashy white Mercedes of her own. Then she takes on a sideline: selling information about the German munitions makers to their French competitors. Then she takes on another: blackmail. One night nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll up to the door of her apartment house. A scream is heard. The nine limousines roll out of sight in sober single file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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