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Word: burley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which one of us. Nate, would not give his eyeteeth to leave the hurley-burley of megalopolis for such an idyllic paradise? I know I would. Incidentally, I shall be absent from Cambridge the next few weeks as pressing business summons me to Johannesburg. yrs very truly, Henry Kissinger April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Files | 5/12/1969 | See Source »

...latest earnings reports are as golden as well-cured burley. American Tobacco, P. Lorillard and Philip Morris broke third-quarter records, and Liggett & Myers is running 27% ahead of last year. The only down note came from the industry leader, R. J. Reynolds (maker of Camel, Winston, Salem), whose profits fell from $35 million to $31 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: Back to High Levels | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...women's doubles quarter finals, the victors were Jane Rosenberg and Dave Rosenweig, Miss Morss and Karen Daltenborne, Miss Kennedy and Muriel Fitzgerald, and Belinda Burley and Marge Piner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Tourney Nears Final Round | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Democrats nominated a protégé of Soapy's who was not the betting favorite. Lieutenant Governor John Burley Swainson, a boyish-looking 35, lost both legs below the knees on an Army night patrol in France during World War II when a land mine blew up under him. The victory of another legless veteran, Republican Charles Potter, who got elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1952, encouraged Swainson to enter politics despite his handicap. He beat out favored Secretary of State James Hare by a decisive 70,000 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Handicaps Overcome | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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