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Word: winninger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Of all the varied and difficult terrain in South Viet Nam, the jungled peaks and malarial valleys of the Central Highlands would seem least worth winning. Scant crops grow there, and scarcely any Vietnamese live there. The triple canopy of jungle foliage shadows the ground in a perpetual, skyless twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Victory in the Valley | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

How gratifying for Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, to learn that somebody out there was paying attention to his appeal last month for funds to aid "the poor of the world." Just three weeks later, a winning ticket in New York State's monthly lottery was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1967 | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

It was college football's "game of the year." U.C.L.A. against Southern Cal. The No. 1 team in the nation against No. 3 (or No. 4, depending on the poll). Passer Gary Beban against Runner O. J. Simpson. At stake: the Pacific Eight title, a Rose Bowl bid and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Spoilers | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Aggressiveness is the key to winning, according to Dee Andros-and he has no shortage of it himself. He wears orange and black shoes (O.S.U. colors, naturally), leads his team's banzai charge onto the playing field, and growls: "I don't think it hurts to smile on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Spoilers | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Charles Evans Hughes once went to bed thinking he was President of the U.S., and woke up to discover that he was just another citizen. Carl Michael Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox went to Puerto Rico at the end of the 1967 baseball season, apparently certain of winning unanimous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Rendered unto Cesar | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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