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Word: twisting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murphy, Eastern champ in the three-meter dive two years ago, has just perfected a double-twist dive for use in the one-meter competition. "Bill looks really loose and his timing is great," assistant coach Benn Merritt said last night. "With this new dive, I expect him to win the one-meter as well as the three-meter," Merritt said...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Eastern Seaboards Begin; Murphy to Lead Tankmen | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

Traction & Twist. The Coot was designed in 1964 by Carl Enos Jr., then an 18-year-old mechanic, as a utility vehicle for ranches. The car carries four passengers or 1,000 lbs. at 25 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

With fourwheel drive and steering, there is always enough traction and twist to prevent tipping, come hill or gully. For the driver, this may make the ride ex citing but hardly different from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...just as we have not forgotton those days just before the Twist, Broadway has not forgotten the success of Bye, Bye Birdie. New York producers seem to have remembered that this Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical found favor not only with parents who wanted to laugh at their crazy children, but with the very subject of satire as well; the kids liked Strouse's mock-pop rhythms. And now, much later, we (and our parents) are being asked to like Broadway packages of our new culture...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: If Conrad Birdie Came Back to Broadway, Would He Have to Drop Some Acid First? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...President is offered a simple choice in determining a nation's priorities; no budget is ever enough to take care of all those who, like Oliver Twist, ask for more. In the next 18 months, the probable area of savings-about $2 billion-is not enough to take care of the demands of the cities, of education and of welfare that could easily absorb the anticipated dividend from the end of the Viet Nam war. But to raise taxes in the interim might well impede the growth of the economy, on which the maintenance of prosperity depends, and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where do we get the money? | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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