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Word: tumblers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder-mystery thriller is a theatrically endangered species. Seasons go by without one, and there have been seven lean years since the last dandy scalp tingler, Sleuth. Deathtrap is a congenial successor-literate, amusing, booby-trapped with scarifying surprises, a brimming tumbler of arsenic and Schweppes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scalp Tingler | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Secret Service agents are coming to check it out for Jerry Ford's visit. He plans to stay there when he returns to vote on Election Day. In the hotel coffee shop, a visitor can buy a religious record or a book of Bible stories-or a tumbler emblazoned with Ford's image. Route 131, which cuts through downtown, was christened the Gerald R. Ford Freeway in 1975, and the President's name also adorns the gym at the Grand Rapids Community College. Despite the uproar over Ford's alleged campaign fund manipulations, his supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: GRAND RAPIDS AS CHARACTER WITNESS | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...began to drink alone in the closing weeks. Despondent and withdrawn, she was embarrassed one noon when surprised by kitchen help as she was filling a tumbler with bourbon. She would spend long hours in her pale yellow bedroom, often returning her luncheon tray with the food untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further Notes on Nixon's Downfall | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...agent who had planted the mike in the target office had tested the key, so the first barrier would yield. But the lock on the office door was a later model -pin and tumbler-and they would have to make its key on the spot ... "All right," Peter said curtly, "I don't want heroes, just the contents of the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: E. Howard Hunt, Master Storyteller | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...meal comes with home-cooked bread; it was fresh and sweet. Beverages are coffee, tea, and cider. The cider ($.25) came in a small, three-quarters filled tumbler and wasn't cold enough...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Fair Find, Middling French | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

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