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Word: crossbows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband, whom she plans to divorce, but Cinemactor George Peppard, 36, whose wife is divorcing him. So, borrowing $35,000 to buy six months left in her Broadway contract, Elizabeth ("Bessie" to good friends) lashed on winged sandals and deparked for London, where Peppard is filming Operation Crossbow. "Here I am, poor but happy," she sighed. "What I've done is to buy freedom. I wanted to be near George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Most of the recruits have come from the Rhade (pronounced Rah-day) tribe, drawn by the near-legendary tales about a young U.S. civilian named David Nuttle, 26. an expert hunter and a crack shot with the crossbow, whom tribesmen have dubbed Y-Dio-King of the Rhade. Nuttie first arrived in Viet Nam in 1959 with the International Voluntary Services, a U.S. welfare organization, picked up the Rhade tongue on his extensive motorcycle travels through montagnard territory. An agriculture graduate of Kansas State University, he helped the Rhade develop better methods of cultivation, learned their customs, wrote two studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: New Friends | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...valleys, where the living was easy, and lorded it over the darker, aboriginal inhabitants who are still known in Laos today as Kha (slaves). To the hills came a fierce assortment of immigrants: Black Thai and White Thai, Yao and Youne and Meo. Adept with the poisoned dart, the crossbow and the animal pit, the 80-odd hill tribes dislike the valley-dwelling Lao and number about half the country's 2,000,000 population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: The White Elephant | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

There Was a Little Girl, a Joshua Logan production, stars Jane Fonda, 22-year-old daughter of Henry. In the original script, she shared a motel bed with a rapist (Sean Garrison), and four-letter words crossed the footlights like crossbow bolts. That was too much for the mothers and fathers of Boston, whose reaction was so vivid that the language was cleaned up and the motel scene changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Report from the Road | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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