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Word: yanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Steve Owen lost his match by the same score. Yank Heisler, playing behind LoPucki, lost two down. Number 7 man, Tommy Wynne, played a good front nine, but lost his match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Team Ends Southern Tour With a 5-2 Defeat at Annapolis | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood appear as the kind of super soldiers who could have won World War II during a weekend pass. Major Burton is head of a British mission behind enemy lines; Lieut. Eastwood is his Yank second-in-command. Their assignment is to rescue an American general who has got himself imprisoned in a German army fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mission Ridiculous | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...returning lettermen are captain Bruce Lo Pucki, Yank Heisler, Barney Oldfield, Jack Purdy, Joe Tibbetts, and tom Wynne. LoPucki, a senior with an 8-4 record last year, has a chance to move into the top position vacated by Bo Keefe, who graduated last June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Expect Good Years With Six Returning Stars | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...Yank Heisler, another strong contender for the top slot, proved to be an excellent match player last year as a sophomore, winning 13 out of 17 matches. Yank will probably be playing higher than his number four position last year. Senior Barney Oldfield finished last season with an 8-5-1 record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Expect Good Years With Six Returning Stars | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...Saigon, the young Buddhist disciple murmured "I am Tao" as he drew designs from the book of I Ching on the palm of his hand. But could that be a Yank accent? It was indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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