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Word: ad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspaper ad offered a 19-in. portable TV set for $8.98, and crowds of pushing shoppers showed up last week at Manhattan's Masters Inc. dis count store to claim the bargain. Trou ble was that the price before the typo graphical error read $88.98. When Masters' clerks refused to sell the TV sets for $8.98, the crowd threatened to get out of hand. Masters' President Jack Haizen made a quick decision: he had the store closed, ordered the sets sold for the price in the ad-though he was not legally obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: The Customer Is SO Right | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...melody fragments, or the shape of the line, will appear in the improvisation. Since all the pieces in this concert were originals it was harder to pick this out than last year, when he was playing familiar melodies. But the technique could be detected, as in "Little Sun" and "Ad...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: Lowell Davidson Trio | 12/9/1965 | See Source »

REMEMBER! said the three-column ad in Indian newspapers, TODAY is A DINNERLESS DAY. Thus the government one day last week began its campaign to prepare Indians for what has become an annual food crisis. It was bad enough last year when India harvested 88 million tons of grain, far short of the nation's need. This year the harvest is expected to fall below 75 million tons. What with some 12 million more mouths to feed, India faces its severest food crisis in two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Threat of Famine | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...water buffalo. The bewildered beast was assigned to loll around while Hero Hugh O'Brian, 37, went tearing by with two battle companions in a scene from something called Ambush Bay, filming on location in the Philippines. O'Brian swashbuckled past on cue, but then the buffalo ad-libbed by charging the hero, tearing through his combat jacket with its horns, fracturing two of his ribs and leaving him out cold in an irrigation ditch. What a break. As soon as O'Brian gets out of the hospital, they'll shoot the scene where "I bravely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 3, 1965 | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Clown. Barbara Harris plays it all in reverse. She not only has a bosom, she saucily displays it. As a constant nympho in Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, she nearly fell out of her blouse giggling, wiggling and winding around a virginal young man in a nocturnal round of seductio ad absurdum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Lights It Spells Harris | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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