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Word: cursed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the automatic rifles of the French legionnaires began stuttering. Bystanders as well as rioters were gunned down, no questions asked. Paratroopers were flown in from France to help, and police helicopters swept down on the crowds, dropping grenades and tear gas into their midst. From every miserable alley came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Somaliland: Victory for Trouble | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

As war clouds picked up in the 1930s, Low's views assaulted the conscience of all England. He created the character of Colonel Blimp, a florid beefeater with a walrus mustache who symbolized British complacency in the teeth of the 20th century's storms. From a Turkish bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: The Statesman | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Hero and Heroine, Pongo and Perdita, after several months of dogmestic bliss, produce a litter of 15 purebred Dalmatian pups. Fate, the hound, decrees that all their troubles shall not be little ones. The pups are promptly dognaped by a couple of unmitigated curs in the employ of Cruella de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pupcorn | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Be Famous | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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