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Word: foams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expressed personal objections to the whole scheme is Freshman Dean F. Skiddy Von Stade, and he has conscientiously kept his remarks on the unofficial level. Von Stade has apparently raised the issue of the moral implications of University complicity in condoms and foam and the resulting responsibility for widespread birth-control. Unfortunately, he has also kept his remarks on a level that is either spectacularly naive or downright insulting to the sexual predispositions of freshmen and freshwomen everywhere. "It might reinforce the idea that it isn't a bad thing." Von Stade told one reporter apparently referring first...

Author: By Bill Backett, | Title: Contraceptives and the Union | 11/30/1972 | See Source »

...served to panic the hijackers, who shot and wounded Copilot Billy H. Johnson. Taxiing on nothing but rims wrapped in tattered rubber, the veteran pilot, Captain William R. Haas, 39, miraculously got the plane off the ground. He was again ordered to Cuba, where he set down on a foam-covered runway at José Martí. Cuban authorities immediately confiscated the money and led the hijackers away. The passengers and crew were flown back to Miami. Their 29 hours of terror were ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Terror on Flight 49 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...Hollywood, accompanied by his children and two other tourists, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Mrs. Dobrynin. They trooped through the Universal Studio, and the children got autographs from Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Dennis Weaver. Then Dobrynin tried a little acting of his own. He hoisted a huge foam-rubber rock high over his head and pretended to threaten Kissinger. "Throw it at me," Kissinger taunted. "You've always wanted to." Dobrynin smiled and put the prop down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1972 | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...approaches to the Hand differ: one fights and the other acquiesces, but in the end, both lose. David Starr Klein as the rationalist is impressive; with cool, clipped prose he contrasts nicely with Joe Volpe's frenetic Man "B." And the Hand is great: mxde of foam rubber and looking about three hundred pounds heavy, it is the personification of imperialism...

Author: By Kenneth G. Bartels, | Title: Hands Off! | 5/31/1972 | See Source »

Unmarked Vans. No show in the staid B.M.'s history ever generated such fuss or demanded such elaborate preparation. First, a firm of English packers spent five weeks in Cairo crating the treasures-each wrapped in cellophane, encased in plastic quilts, set on a foam cushion tray and finally shut in a carpeted crate. The museum stepped up its security precautions. When this groundwork (estimated cost: $900,000) had been done, the 41 crates were flown at night from Cairo in two BOAC freighters and one R.A.F. jet, then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tutankhamenophilia | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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