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Word: letup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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There was no letup in the outboard horsepower race. Outboard Marine's best-selling twins, Johnson and Evinrude, each unveiled a $908.50, 75-h.p. giant (up from 1958's 50 h.p. tops); Mercury showed off a 80 h.p. behemoth (price: $1,100 without propeller). While out-boarders felt that they were almost to the limit in horsepower for the hulls now in existence, Scott showed an experimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Happy Sailing | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

AMERICAN Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder's splendid parody of a Mack Sennett comedy, sustained without letup or letdown for two hours (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: BEST PICTURES OF 1959 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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