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Word: brookes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverett House's 13-man juggernut struck first for the Crimson this after-noon, taking a 12-0 victory from Timothy Dwight College on touchdown runs by Mike Hardesty and Chuck O'Connor. In the other first-round contests. Dudley, Adams, and Lowell lost to Calhoun, Say-brook, and Pierson. The scores were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Teams Notch Four Wins at Yale | 11/25/1961 | See Source »

...building the new wall. In some areas, the crews manage to seal off as much as six miles of the border a day. The fence weaves through the Hansel-and-Gretel-like Harz Mountain forests. Near Braunlage, I came upon two miserably wet East German guards standing alongside the brook that separates the two zones. From my side of the barbed wire, I offered them a cigarette and then a drink from a pocket flask. "Ja, bitte," they said, and I threw both cigarettes and flask across the brook and barrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: Death Strip | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

Good lanterns, say Japanese landscape gardeners, must have a "built-in" feel of age, restraint, and a special beauty known as shibui. Placing one in a garden is a matter of the most delicate importance: it must stand beside a pond or brook, where its reflection will be seen by garden strollers "at exactly the right moments and in the right angles." One problem facing Professor Honoso, who arrives at Hyannisport early next month to personally supervise the installation of the gift lanterns: the Kennedy compound has neither ponds nor brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Lanterns for Landscapers | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...which tailors the New York Times's famed 65-year-old slogan (ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT) to ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT. In another Maine weekly, the Kennebunk Star, the mysterious initials THWTB sprouted recently on Page One. Halfheartedly, Publisher Alexander Brook explained that they stand for THE HARD WAY'S THE BEST. In fact, they represent the classic cry of exasperated newsmen everywhere: To Hell with the Bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maxims & Moonshine | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Milwaukee, Beaver Ridge Farms, Oak Brook, Royal Palm. Solo Cup and Tulsa-Aiken thwack it out in the finals of the national polo tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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