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Word: exclaims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summer as never before, Americans are realizing that to most of the world's population the U.S. is "abroad," a strange land for tourists to goggle at, write home about, and exclaim over in their incomprehensible tongues. In 1964 more than 300,000 Frenchmen, Germans, English, Italians, Russians and Japanese - not counting students, government officials, 5,000,000 Canadians and 260,000 Mexicans - are expected to visit the U.S. This amounts to an in crease of 31,491 over the influx last year and about a 77% gain over 1960. "The U.S. vacation," says a London travel agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Foreign Country | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...came that one of his favorite devices was to stand before the audience, wave a copy of the civil rights bill and shout, "Do you see this bill? Have you read it? Do you know what it says?" With hardly any listeners having read the bill, he could then exclaim, "Well, I'll tell you what it says!" and proceed to distort the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...shawl? Did she cover the chairs? And I know that the sound of the rain will wake some lovers, and that its sound will seem to be a part of that force that has thrust them into one another's arms. Then I sit up in bed and exclaim aloud to myself, 'Valor! Love! Virtue! Compassion! Splendor! Kindness! Wisdom! Beauty!' The words seem to have the colors of the earth, and as I recite them I feel my hopefulness mount until I am contented and at peace with the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE METAMORPHOSES OF JOHN CHEEVER | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...been told that a printing press was hidden there and needed to be brought out and put to use. Four of Nechaev's friends were tried for the murder and condemned to exile in Siberia. Nechaev fled to Geneva, where his presence caused the great revolutionary Bakunin to exclaim: "They are wonderful, these young fanatics. Believers without God." Bakunin issued to Nechaev a sort of party card or credential of the "International Alliance," bearing the serial number 2771. As a consequence, the Czar's agents and half the police of Europe were looking for at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Skeleton Key | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...spun his wife around in a Viennese waltz and a polka, went a few fast fox trots with his 17-year-old daughter Susan, who took off her shoes in a display of considerable confidence. Later, Scranton performed a three-minute Charleston solo, causing a startled observer to exclaim, "Can you imagine what the Democrats will do with a picture of Scranton spread out in a Charleston position?'' He got a quick answer from another G.O.P. lady: "Wasn't he just great? It shows we've got a real human being for Governor. What a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What a Time | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

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