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Word: icebox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want." (The second is "If there is anything you want and you don't ask for it, it's your own fault.") Days at Topridge are spent in picnicking, canoeing, hiking. Nights are for square-dancing, movie watching, black-tie dinners, and late-night snacks from an icebox stocked with General Foods products. Says one guest, Magnavox Co. Vice President Godfrey Mc-Hugh: "The planning is comparable to the successful management of a large corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Mumsy the Magnificent | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even caught more than it meant to. During one rehearsal, Director Franco Zeffirelli unexpectedly waved onstage 226 extras, a gesture that cost Bell $15 a head in fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bell Ringer | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...begins at Fairbanks, Alaska, where the 707s refuel. Waiting at the runway is an Eskimo with a Gibson refrigerator. The idea is that the not-so-dry Gibsons can snap pictures, brag back home that they sold an icebox to an Eskimo. At Tokyo, a Hong Kong tailor comes aboard to measure for suits and shirts, and between organized activities visitors get an opportunity to spend their own "fun money." "My wife bought herself ten glass-beaded sweaters," complained a Nevada dealer. "I'll have to sell glass-beaded refrigerators when we get home to get even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Goodbye Hong Kong, Hello Acapulco | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

...boss to watch those between-meal snacks. But sometimes, tattled Deputy White House Press Secretary Robert Fleming, 54, Lyndon Johnson gets sneaky about it. Not long ago, Fleming told a group of labor editors, the President tiptoed into the kitchen late one night to raid the icebox. Just as he was digging into some tapioca pudding, the scraping of his metal spoon against the pan aroused Lady Bird, who must have the ears of an Apache scout. She chewed him out. Unrepentant, the President studied the problem for a while and then gave Fleming a short order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 3, 1966 | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...Brooklyn last March, two young thugs named Kazle Anthony and Stephen Batten forced three butchers into a walk-in icebox, robbed them of $3,500, shot each of them in the head twice, and finished them off with meat cleavers. After a jury convicted them of first-degree murder, Justice David L. Malbin called the killers' crime "one of the most atrocious in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: The Sentencing Mess | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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