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Word: blue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squads presented contrasting styles at a meeting this afternoon. Keough's team had just filed off the plane in matching blue blazers, short haircuts, and a general air of All-Americanness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team In NCAA Semifinals Tonight | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

...drawing began at 8 p.m. at national draft headquarters in Washington. After a prayer, draft director Lewis B. Hershey ordered unlocked a black box containing 366 blue plastic capsules and had them poured into a large glass jar. Inside each capsule was a gummed paper printed with a date of the year...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Lottery: Happy Birthday For Some | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...Eight minutes later, DeMichele took a feed from sophomore Bob Havern near the St. Nick's blue line and went in all alone, faking Groh to the right corner of the net, and flipping the puck into the left with a backhander...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Hockey Team Rips St. Nicholas: Mark Scores Two In 5-2 Triumph | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

Birthday suits in their closets along with their black suits and brown suits and navy blue suits? Perhaps, I could see where the popovers were made instead...

Author: By Julie E. Green, | Title: The Harvard Club Of New York City | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

...sheep dog ("Once you have taught him stillness, you're getting somewhere"). An orchard foreman navigates his way through the niceties of pruning apple trees. A wheelwright remembers how he used to build wagons ("For making the hubs we always chose wych-elm") and paint them ("The blue rode well in the corn"). The village veterinarian, a sensitive man, contemplates the tortuous ethics of "factory farms," where pigs and chickens are raised assembly style. Wrinkling his brow over incipient inbred cannibalism, he observes darkly: "Tail biting among pigs is becoming a quite incredibly large problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World Well Lost | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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