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Word: ewe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana as the Ewe tribe, to which his adversary Gbedemah belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Friday's Child | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...Ewe." A one-man copulation explosion, Tyson has never gone more than 17 hours without committing adultery. His wife is Actress Caterina Largo, who possesses, among other things, "a behind stuffed with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beverly Hills Baroque | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...time Ankrah arrived on the scene, the zoo was nearly empty. Why hadn't someone phoned to inform him? he growled. "We orangutang but ewe did not answer," the zookeeper replied tsetsely. After a halfhearted tour of the cages, he returned to headquarters, sank wearily into a chair and, realizing it was too late to save the animals, told the garrison commander to allow his troops to continue the feast. "As a matter of fact," said Ankrah, "as long as you're up, get me a Grant's gazelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Fangs a Lot | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...this elegant little piece of nature literature, Author Robert Murphy (The Pond, The Peregrine Falcon) describes the life of one golden eagle from the day she leaves the nest in Colorado to the day she sinks her beak into the poisoned carcass of a ewe. Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Raptor | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...that yoo've seen the kangarew See if yoo can find the yew. I'll give yew a gud cloo-She's hiding behind the ewe. Yoors trooly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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