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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attitude that keeps other great women in the kitchen 100% of the time cooking their gefilte fish. Hooray for Golda! In this day and age especially, as we see ourselves portrayed on TV as empty-headed sex objects, to read of such a woman is a breath of fresh air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...stalemate. Nigerian troops are liberally supplied by both the British and the Russians with jet planes, mortars, armored cars and guns; but up to now they have often used the equipment like dilettantes. The outgunned, outmanned Biafrans have retreated to advantageously familiar home ground, and receive French arms by air. On their northeastern front, the Nigerians are largely in control. In the southeast, the Biafrans have 3,000 Nigerian soldiers encircled at Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Twin Stalemates | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...factor of three. The optics of the spectrograph had also been improved to enable astronomers to distinguish finer details of the dark absorption lines that would be produced in the spectrum by any moisture in the Martian atmosphere. On two of the nights the astronomers were viewing Mars, the air above them was uncommonly dry, minimizing the obscuring effects of the earth's atmospheric moisture on their results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Moisture on Mars | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Look magazine sent Churchill in 1966 to Viet Nam, where he flew in air strikes against the Viet Cong, shared trenches with U.S. infantrymen and concluded: "More than ever I am convinced that Britain must stand behind the U.S. in Viet Nam." With fortunate timing, he arrived in Israel just before the war with the Arabs broke out in 1967 and he covered it for the London Evening News. He also got a wire from his father, Randolph: SUGGEST WE DO JOINT RUSH BOOK. WHAT DO YOU SAY? Their book, The Six Day War, sold 170,000 copies in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: More Than a Name | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...Television can only be cleaned up, Pastore said, if the N.A.B. agrees to give the Code Authority real power-specifically to prescreen all network programs. Under Pastore's projected plan, Code Authority members could simply order deletions of "offensive" material from network programs before they went on the air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regulation: Minuet over Censorship | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

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