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Word: burned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find a happy-or even any-ending for all the tangled people and plots of Peyton Place. Executive Producer Paul Monash admits that it will be impossible to "tie up all the story threads. The solution has been proposed to have the Miles family [Negroes, newly arrived] burn down the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: Burn Down Peyton Place? | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Learn, Don't Burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...protest in reverse" when students seek to gain an education? "Dialogue," "confrontation" and "polarization of ideas" can be had on the streets and across the back fence. Who needs college for that? It's refreshing to see at least some students who would rather learn than burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

There are other moon flight worries, most of them centered around the functioning of the Apollo command module's SPS engine. Should the SPS fail to ignite, or should it burn for less than 80 sec. during the attempt to place Apollo in lunar orbit, there would be little difficulty; the spacecraft would simply continue around the moon and be whipped back toward the earth and safety. But if the SPS should fail between the 80-and 110-sec. marks of its scheduled 246-sec. burn, Apollo would enter what NASA euphemistically describes as an "unstable orbit." After rounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Censorship is so repugnant to most moviemakers they would rather have Mondo Freudo shown in a kindergarten than let a censor bowdlerize Ulysses. On the other hand, many parents would sooner burn a theater than let their children watch the crudity visible in all too many "adult films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trade: Four-Letter Choices | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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