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Word: gangly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewing audience, a concept which emphasized crime, violence and sex." But the network presidents insisted that about the only thing wrong in the industry is its sloppy memos. When Dodd questioned CBS President Frank Stanton about his response to complaints about a Route 66 show in which a juvenile gang leader is chain-whipped, Stanton said: "It is not my responsibility to get each secretary's notes about a telephoned complaint but to watch out for program quality of the network generally." Snapped Dodd: "I had hoped to hear an expression of real determination to eliminate such things from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Many-Splendored Thing | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...Well, gang, we goofed. The varsity baseball team, currently considered one of the best diamond aggregations ever put together at Harvard, plays Dartmouth in animal land today, not yesterday, as reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball to Play Dartmouth | 5/9/1962 | See Source »

...gang, we report all the sporting news. Last Saturday the Plympton Bombers best the Mass. Ave. Moretube 8-2, but lost the next two games in a scheduled whiffleball triple-header...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moretubs Win in Whiffleball | 5/8/1962 | See Source »

...Petty Putsch." At that, the Communists almost missed the boat with Fidel. When Castro led a gang of young rebels in a foolhardy frontal assault on Batista's Moncada barracks in 1953, the old party-liners called it a "petty-bourgeois putsch." In 1957. when Castro went into the Sierra Maestra hills to start his guerrilla war, they again dismissed him as an ineffectual "adventurer"-a Communist phrase for amateurs. But Castro survived and grew stronger, and the possibility of an alliance began to dawn on both sides. Though Castro was a hero in the hills with great popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Moscow's Man in Havana | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...great movie might discover hard to take. Its mood is the oppressive apathy of Harlem; its hero is "Duke" Custis, a fourteen year old Negro boy, who has struck out to find his identity according to the only standards he has ever seen honored, as head of a street gang...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: The Cool World: Frederick Wiseman | 4/24/1962 | See Source »

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