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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again, by the accounts of both Sorensen and Schlesinger, Kennedy was done in by his advisers. He was assured that the invasion might well set off an anti-Castro uprising in Cuba-which constituted a bad misreading of the political situation. Moreover, he had been told all along that if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: BAY OF PIGS REVISITED: Lessons from a Failure | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

No phenomenon of nature is too small to escape the curiosity of modern science, not even the twinkle of distant little stars. Astronomers call it scintillation. But putting a name to the faint flicker has hardly served to explain it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Twinkle Belt | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

Yet Chagall could not long escape into the world of theater and ballet. The disasters of war inflamed him, and in 1943 he painted the Yellow Crucifixion. Amidst acidic yellows and greens, Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

So do situation comedies. Car, Smothers and Jeannie are only three of the 18 new shows that will be tickling the ribs of laugh machines next year. The most promising of the situations seems to be occupied by Hogan's Heroes (CBS), a sort of World War II P.O.W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Quoth the Ratings: Ever More | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

"You begin with the fact that everything is awful. That any two people are mismatched, that nothing will work," says Tom Waltz, Stanley's son, who has been invited to escape the limitations of his fate at Polycarp, an educational institution in Slow Rapids, Ind., where the Waltz grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh When It Hurts | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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