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Word: fans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next-to-last visit to Widener Library was just like all the ones before it. I wanted a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, dutifully filled out the little blue card, and waited with the frame of mind of a life-long Washington Senators fan for the girl behind the call desk to tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tale of Horror in Harvard Yard: From Girls to BK RDR BY RSN | 7/23/1963 | See Source »

...ambassador to the U.S. In that post, he has served under four U.S. Presidents, eight Secretaries of State and six Nicaraguan chiefs of government. During his two decades in Washington, he has accumulated nine children, 34 medals and 4,400 photographs of himself and his family. A passionate baseball fan, he calls his children "my baseball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: The Dean of the Corps | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Despite the numerous chances for disaster in an All Star clash, such as the lack of team co-ordination, personal friction, and super-eagerness on the part of the younger men, the game does have a magical attraction, making it hard for a fan to keep away from the television set. With all that high priced talent around, there are bound to be fireworks of one sort or another...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 7/9/1963 | See Source »

...Jackson, Miss., a torrid 102°. It was hotter still in the barnlike Masonic Hall in the Negro quarter on Lynch Street. There was no air conditioning, no electric fan. The 4,000 Negro people who squeezed into every seat, into every bit of floor space on the stage, in the aisles, along the walls, turned their faces to a flag-draped coffin. Trumpeters arose and began to play a dirge. The people sang: "Be not dismayed, God will take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Life & Death in Jackson | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...fever was everywhere, and every act seemed to fan the flames in another place. Fifteen hundred Chicago Negroes picketed a cemetery that had refused to cremate one of their race. In Michigan, a resort shut down when 50 pickets arrived with signs charging segregation there. In Baltimore, eight people went to jail after picketing a segregated amusement park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Revolution | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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