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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I am sore distressed. Months of European travel were motivated by intellectual curiosity; perhaps I have sinned. Henceforth, I shall avidly devote my energies to outwitting airline and customs employees, diligently hunting American food and drinks and, while my wife shops, perhaps engage in a bit of titillating research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

> "If we could eliminate the jury, we would save a lot of time. You can try a case without a jury in one day that would take you a week or two weeks with a jury." In the civil law system in Europe, he said, "they never let one judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Some Heretical Views | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

One simply does not drop in out of the blue and demand an audience with a famous opera star-especially if the opera star is Maria Callas. The grand diva was in Uchisar, Turkey, for the filming of her first movie, Medea, and Turkish Information Minister Nihat Kursat made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Though Meyer's films have grossed $11 million in ten years, the profits, he claims, have been incidental. "My turn-on," he says, "is making movies that entertain me." Unfortunately, like those other pioneers, Kinsey and Masters, Meyer may live to see himself trampled in the sexual revolution. "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glandscape Artist | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

The story still begins as generically as any Chandler. A detective is engaged to track a missing husband. The wife is alcoholic, inscrutable and intriguing. Armed with few clues and a feeling that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solution and Dissolution | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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