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Word: blanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much about the 19625), Townsend three months ago hired away from Ford able Stylist Elwood Engel, who created the clean, sculptured lines of the 1961 Lincoln Continental. And to restore Chrysler's longtime reputation for pacing the auto industry in engineering innovations. Townsend has handed his engineers a blank check to develop a gas turbine engine (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Chrysler Fights Back | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...more, Composer Aaron Copland has written some graceful background music, and the three principals do as well as anybody could with the script in hand. As to the script, Actress Dunnock has the last word in the last scene of the film. "What," she inquires in a blank confusion that her audience will wholly share, "what has happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wild & Woolly | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...amateur historian, Kennedy might have realized that no new President starts out with a blank book to be filled with fresh-ink policies. The reach of current history is such that any President's program becomes a continuing part of national policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: John F. Kennedy, A Way with the People | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...three noses, a family whose every member is named Bobby Watson. Sometimes the absurdity is purely verbal: "The small of my back is too big, Doctor." More often it is physical, macabre and symbolic. Two men try to measure a corridor only to find that their measuring tapes are blank. A couple have a growing corpse in the next room, and its huge foot finally pops open the interconnecting door. Later, it becomes a balloon and floats away. A prancing prostitute wears a pony tail where a pony does, making her the first whorse in theatrical history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anatomy of the Absurd | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...sorts of dastardly plots. Some governments might fear the effect of piling tension on tension, of driving to despair the most docile population. But Mao Tse-tung believes in tension as a normal state. The Chinese masses, he once explained, ''are first poor and secondly 'blank.' That may seem a bad thing, but it is really a good thing. A blank sheet of paper has no marks, and so the newest and most beautiful words can be written on it." From the start. Mao's new and beautiful words have hammered out two themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Loss of Man | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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