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Word: umbrellas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story of Piazza's semi-demise began at the starting line, where the runners were forced to stand for an unusually long time before the gun was fired. Pottetti, freezing in the pouring rain, looked around him and saw Penn coach Jim Tupenny holding an umbrella over Piazza. "When I saw that I said to myself that there was no way I wasn't going to beat that boy," Pottetti said after the race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Crush Piazza, Penn For Another Heptagonal Victory | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

...seems to me that the great tragedy of the Viet Nam Moratorium is that people do not realize that peace is too precious to be bought. A gentleman with a silk hat and umbrella learned this 31 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Still raining and no umbrella. Semitic museum, I wonder where they keep them. Do I really work here? Good morning, Cynthia. I mean...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...What is really at stake," writes TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin from New Delhi, "is the political stability that has allowed the 550 million people of the world's largest working democracy to begin their slow emergence from centuries of poverty, ignorance and disease. If the Congress umbrella splinters, sending its diverse elements running in all directions for opportunistic alliances, India might well be plunged into political chaos." By 1972, Indira must therefore prove that the Congress can indeed get India moving. If she fails, her recent political triumphs, for all their flashiness, will count as nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: INDIA: THE LADY v. THE SYNDICATE | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Once brought under the Mob's umbrella, a business almost always ceases to operate legitimately. If it is a restaurant ?favorite targets?or a nightclub, it buys coal or oil from one LCN affiliate, rents linen from another, ships garbage out through still another. Its entertainers, parking-lot attendants and even its hat check girls must always be approved by the Mob?and sometimes they must kick back part of what they take in. When the gangsters were big in Las Vegas, they sometimes used skimmed cash to supplement the fees paid to featured performers. The under-the-table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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