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Word: blaze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Blaze, one of Sherlock Holmes's cases, a highly important clue is the fact that on a significant occasion a dog did not bark. Similarly, one of the most revealing facts about the U.S. in 1962 is that protectionists-advocates of high protective tariffs-are doing remarkably little barking at a time when they ought to be baying fiercely. President Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act, now being worked over by the House Ways and Means Committee, pushes far beyond the old reciprocal trade program. It would empower the President to slash U.S. tariffs by 50% or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protectionism:: Requiescat in Pace | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Rather Cold Passion. She is all right, of course, with Bond beside her in a blaze of bullets and burning motel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Human Bondage | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...whole lot of goods, while women shrieked: "What a waste!" When the bonfire had died on White Sand Beach near Seoul last week, $20,000 in small luxuries had been destroyed. Since then the brightest lights on Korea's bleak landscape are from bonfires: a $100,000 blaze in Pusan, a $40,000 fire in Masan. Other fires are due in Seoul until $230,000 in confiscated goods are destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Against Wanton Desires | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...Rattigan's theatrical flair and the lacerating honesty of John Mills's portrayal of Lawrence, the play carries one along with its promise of some ultimate disclosure of character. The central illusion holds: this could be Lawrence, this could be the Arabian desert. The high-noon blaze of Motley's desert scenes evokes a sandy inferno stretching to infinity, a landscape without perspective in which a man might take himself for a god. By contrast, the R.A.F. barracks are squatty, cramped, mind-dwarfing. But at play's end, this portrait of a hero turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hero as Riddle | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...Bobby Morse too-when they are not working too close to him. He is more Penrod than Sammy Glick. Up and down the Rialto, he first-names doormen and kisses headwaiters in theatrical hangouts. He even kisses Producer David Merrick. He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter. On one memorable occasion he turned a chocolate mousse upside down on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: I Believe in You | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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