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Word: walleted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putting together a mental list of everything money can buy--a little project to while away the time. And she figured an American should know about luxury. Most country people refused to be taken in, as they saw it, by a thin cotton dress and a limp wallet. After all, you need money to get past that ocean. I would catch this woman scrutinizing me warily and abruptly, waiting for the truth to out about my customary, high falutin' life-style...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Trapped in Perpetual Transit | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Trapped in Perpetual Transit | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Speed Record. "I'm getting people healthy and happy," exults Hinds. "And I'm also very healthy mentally and physically, not to mention my wallet." To keep those three facets in trim, Hinds demonstrates the Lifeline every chance he gets. Just last month in Washington, D.C., he set a new world "speed-jumping" record by skipping over his rope 63 times in ten seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: The Jump Rope King | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Maria Churruca Iriondo have been shortened to one name only in the hope that they will fall trippingly, from the wagerer's tongue. But crowds still shout "Come on, Three!" rather than "Do it, Churruca." Exotic betting possibilities like quinellas and perfectas win out over personalities in the wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jai Alai Moves North | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...young life; he could not even hold a job as a paint salesman. His wife divorced him in 1972 on the first anniversary of their marriage. About all that he seemed to be good at-and interested in-was cars, any kind of cars. In his wallet, Woods carried pictures of cars, not people. His family's 100-acre ranch is littered with 100 or more vehicles in various states of repair that he was working on, and he liked to bomb around in a renovated, shiny, scarlet hearse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: They Were Good Kids | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

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