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Word: wen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hogwash, said Arnie Palmer. There had been no operation; the cyst was nothing more than a little wen, and it was on his backside, not his back. "I'm just bushed," he said. He thinks he will feel better in about a month, and then he will return to the tour-in time for New York's $100,000 Thunderbird Classic Invitational and the U.S. Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Something to Go Home About | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...Writer Wen O. Henry Award...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: 'Cliffe Names 32 Women To New Institute | 5/30/1962 | See Source »

...Pinspotters in 17 foreign countries, counts on the nascent global bowling boom to substantially increase its 1960 overseas sales of $22 million. To expand its line of recreational equipment, AMF has bought W. J. Voit Rubber Corp. (tread rubber, scuba gear), Ben Hogan Co. (golfing equipment), and Wen-Mac Corp. (engine-powered toy airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Diversified Success | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Born. To Chiang Hsiao-wen, 25, Chiang Kai-shek's eldest grandson who is in the export-import business in Taipei, and Nancy Chiang, 22, granddaughter of onetime Gimo comrade in arms: their first child, a daughter, and first great-grandchild of 73-year-old Chiang; in Taipei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 31, 1961 | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...eyes like muscatel grapes," he quickly let her know that his first love was English. He packed her off to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to drop her "very queer R's" and pick up her elocutionary ABCs. One of his early obiter dictions: "Wot, wich, were, wen. weel, etc. are absolutely incorrect; but the alternatives hwat, hwich, hwere, hwen, and hweel are equally incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unteachable Molly | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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