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Word: wrapper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly how the whole thing began-with a win that changed her life. It was in 1947 when she was walking to work in Kenton, Ohio, a new graduate of a Lima, Ohio, beauty school. She was munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought the equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Those theories may be a bit too facile to sum up the complicated man who can, at the same time, publish a quality national daily like The Australian and an ignoble fish wrapper like the San Antonio News, who can shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Gutman - Much too official in regard to security matters. Whereas you can convince the checker at Lamont of your Harvard affiliation by flashing a bubble-gum wrapper, at Gutman they require not only identification but your Harvard admissions letter as well...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: The Good, The Bad and the Pusey | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...mother was hospitalized at Roosevelt eleven months ago, Ethel was first a patients' escort, then joined the gift shop. Now she comes in at least once a week-her other engagements, such as a concert tour with Carroll O'Connor permitting. "She's a great wrapper," says the shop's manager. Belts Ethel: "I'm lousy at corners." Then Nonsmoker Merman confessed her only vice: an innocuous form of sniffing. At the cupboard where the cigarette cartons are stored, she inhaled happily. "It smells just like a Dunhill humidor," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

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