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Word: topher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truck driver in Boston took his St. Christopher statue off the dashboard, had his first accident in 35 years, and ruefully put it back. An international fraternity of Christopherphiles with headquarters in France reported that enrollments were climbing. Columnist Art Buchwald, a Jew, speculated that good old St. Chris topher would go right on protecting travelers, calendar or no, because he's "that kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Devotions: The Heavenly Jobless | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

This time there is only one person in the culdesac, a newly successful English movie star named Annabel Chris topher. Though neither pretty ("a peaky face and mousey hair") nor clever ("a deep core of stupidity that thrives on the absence of a looking-glass"), she projects well-bred sexiness on the screen. In the hands of Luigi Leopardi, a chimerical Roman director, she becomes "the English Lady-Tiger." The public image is painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Way With Love And Death: More Than Female Savagery | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Harvard had split its varsity light-weight crew in two for the races. The winning Harvard straight foursome (without cox) consisted of Topher Cutler, Bill Braun, Ken Moler, and Monk Terry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweight Oarsmen Defeat Vesper Four | 6/12/1967 | See Source »

...compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Stirrings in La Superbo | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Chris topher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

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