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Word: dozed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students at work in the Hilles penthouse will be much less likely to doze off this year. The carpet is gone, and cork tiling isn't nearly as soft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hilles Penthouse Loses Carpeting; Gains Cork Tiles | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...keyed bounders. This time, he plays an ingratiating, low-keyed jewel thief who creeps up on baubles and boudoirs with equal ingenuity. It is the kind of role that Caine can do in his sleep. The difficulty is that by now much of the audience may be tempted to doze along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gained Goods | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

Traditionally, members of a congregation are a captive audience who can either doze off or walk out, but cannot talk back. Today, more and more U.S. clergymen are letting the people in the pew talk back by experimenting with "dialogue sermons" as an alternative to the pulpit monologue. One reason for this communal approach to the exposition of God's word is that today's educated congregations are unwilling to put up with authoritarian preaching that lacks the stamp of credibility. Advocates of the dialogue sermon point out that since industry, government and education have discovered the virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preaching: Backtalk from the Pew | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...Manfred Mann. It's just recently fallen off the tunedex. It's also about a guy who's pushing skag. Want proof? "When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna fly to him." and "When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna want a doze." The last is a pun on "want a doze." and "want a dose." Of course the whole scene is a lot like Waiting for Godot, which brings in God and religion and which sounds right for Dylan. And maybe H can be a religion. What this song's got in common with...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Dylan's Message | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...surely crazier than we realize." But he undercuts his own arguments by his hysterically hectoring tone. Christians, he writes, "made all the world a hell." He testifies he has seen scientists at work who are "corrupt, mindless, ignorant." In the end, his book induces only the normal long-sermon doze and the final dogged agreement that, yes, we're not as good as we should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of Vipers | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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