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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Annoying Ploy. British humor can be highly perishable, and its point is often so obscure as to defy detection -except perhaps, by the British themselves. But Stephen Potter's wry and understated advice on how to win games, including the game of life, with losing hands endeared him to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Winning the Game of Life | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Without Actually Cheating) to the last (Golfmanship), can easily be absorbed at one sitting. In any of them, it is impossible to miss Potter's point: that anyone can triumph over all the pompous types who hog the center of the stage -the long-winded bore, the authority, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Winning the Game of Life | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Now there is the Pegasus, a double bed that climbs three feet up and down; the Seesaw, which makes the bedroom a playground; and the Seesaw Pony, which not only teeters but simultaneously flips a center section up and down. There is an Apollo series, double beds with built-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Moving Beddo | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Greater Bliss. "What's the fun of hopping into beds for the same eternal routines?" asks Buntaro Nagasaka, manager of the Hotel New Japan in Kobe. "We provide our patrons with something new and exciting in beds to help trigger a greater bliss for them." The most sensational trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Moving Beddo | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

For a few frantic years in the '60s, London-swinging and otherwise-became the center of the world of fads and styles. Now the inevitable outburst of reviews of the passing decade has begun, and among the first is a book, Goodbye Baby & Amen (Coward-McCann; $15), by British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Style of the '60s | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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