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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams wrote a play about people who inhabit the past and the present, and those who inhabit no time at all. There is Amanda Wingfield, a faded Mississippi belle stranded in the slums of St. Louis who is trying desperately to recapture the dead world of the Delta; Jim O...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: The Glass Menagerie | 12/4/1965 | See Source »

When the siege of Plei Me was lifted five weeks ago, the mauled Communist attackers faded westward into the uninhabited valleys of elephant grass and scrub-covered hills that for a long time have been their sanctuary. But this time a sanctuary it was not to be. The U.S. undertook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Valleys of Death | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

To operate, it must first be accelerated to a speed of several hundred miles per hour by an auxiliary turbojet or rocket engine, or get a lift from a conventional plane. After that, enough air is rammed into the engine's front inlet to set up a pressure barrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Here Comes the Flying Stovepipe | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

This fall, however, the Harvard Drama Review has made its escape from the domination of the stapler into a slick-paper format, written and assembled at greater leisure. Joel Silverstein, the editor, has put together the most intelligent collection of critics any of these magazines has ever had, and the...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: The 3-Way Battle of the Drama Reviews | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

Murphy admitted that none of the fire alarms in the Houses along the Charles River were functional during the powerless period. The alarms are supplied by the 550-volt hookup. Only the battery-powered emergency lights switched on, and they lasted for no more than two hours. They were not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard To Make Electrical Change; Plans Call for System of Generators | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

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