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Word: fu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...municipal bus system, which, as it turned out, had far too few vehicles to handle the trade. The ban stranded thousands of commuters who had no other way to get to work. Lagos' streets were immediately jammed with baby-toting mammies lugging pails of smoked fish, fu-fu rolls and other pungently perishable delicacies to market in the 100° heat. The pedestrians were the only things moving. Angry maulers used their mammy wagons to blockade all entrances to the city, slashed the tires of the big municipal buses and pulled them across downtown intersections. The result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Day They Banned The Mammy Wagons | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...republic against any who wish to take advantage of our current need in order to get control over us ... from no quarter shall we accept direction, and at no time shall we lower our guard against subversion. Neither our principles, our country, nor our freedom to determine our own fu ture is for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanzania: Why We Guard Against Subversion | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...Germany's Eberhard Schöler, was eliminated in the semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools in the world that gives a degree in Ping-Pong), and Challenger Li Fu-jung, 22, who resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd of 8,000 as he casually returned smash after smash, biding his time until he uncoiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table Tennis: A Game of War | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...subtle erosion of character. After the Patna scandal, Jim works as a coolie and coal heaver. In the Malay Archipelago, he saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Patusans & Platitudes | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...President went on to explain that he would not be able to attend the fu neral of Sir Winston Churchill. His doctors had told him it would be "inadvisable for me to undertake a long trip where I would be exposed as I would be on a London trip at this time." To be members of the official U.S. delegation to the funeral Johnson named Chief Justice Earl Warren, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and David Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Back to The White House | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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