Search Details

Word: doffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...often at his desk by 6:45 a.m., and ends the day at 8 or 9 p.m., after eating dinner alone at his desk. His only break is for lunch. Sometimes Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, the only ambassador so favored, comes by for a noontime sandwich. The two doff their coats and eat at a small round table in Brzezinski's office. Essentially a loner with few real friends in the Administration, Brzezinski spends little time with cronies. He sometimes plays doubles tennis against Jimmy Carter, who is usually on the winning side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rapping for Carter's Ear | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film he had constructed, and he wasn't above giving himself a little doff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kubrick Gets His Kicks; Hawks Hyperventilates | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...across the carved faces on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock himself jaunts onto the screen in the opening minutes, his belly pulling up to and bouncing off the closing door of a bus. He knew what a brilliant film he had constructed, and he wasn't above giving himself a little doff of the chapeau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With A Trowel | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Bald bearded and photogenic. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was once known as India's sex guru. At Mount Abu, the hill resort in Rajasthan where he operated from 1969 to 1974, he dispensed tantric yoga, chanting and meditation. Western pilgrims would sometimes doff all their clothes and wriggle in ecstasy, while the more inhibited Indians stripped down to their underwear. Photographers clicked merrily away without hindrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Sir at Esalen East | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...streets. In Kansas City, Mo., assault charges are pending against a Hare Santa who allegedly struck a Salvation Army bell ringer to make her move from a choice location. In Chicago, police arrested six Krishna Kringles for soliciting funds under false pretenses, then released them but ordered them to doff their Santa outfits. Nonetheless, the organization has no intention of changing its methods, pointing out -accurately-that no religious group has exclusive rights to the Santa symbol. Adds Krishna Public Affairs Director Mike Grant: "Our funds are being used for spiritual purposes and that, in the broader definition of charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Krishna Kringles | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next