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Word: derringers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona's Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police unsuccessfully pursued them, their rockets exploded into a shower of paper flags, each bearing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The New Basques | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

The blonde is Pamela Austin, a 25year-old Omaha-born actress and model who lives in Hollywood with her husband and two-year-old son. All her harebrained derring-do is done in the name of souping up sales of Dodge automobiles. Though it is impossible to say precisely how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Calamity Pam | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). The Buccaneer (1959), featuring Charlton Heston as General Andrew Jackson and Yul Brynner as Pirate Jean Lafitte in a tale of derring-do set in New Orleans during the War of 1812.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Despite the demonstrations, Johnson emerged on top after his days down under. Along with a planeload of gifts ranging from a brace of albino kangaroos to miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: On Top Down Under | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Bobby's every activity is prominently and exhaustively chronicled-from a breathtaking ride down 100 turbulent miles of Idaho's Salmon River to an out-of-breath conquest of Canada's 14,000 ft. Mount Kennedy. Ever voracious for Kennedyana, reporters besiege him with requests for interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Shadow & the Substance | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

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