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Word: inspectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those skiers who averaged within 10 per cent of the winning Class B time over three races this year. Times for five races were needed to qualify last year, but the qualifications were changed to three this season. Class C skiers must be certified competent to race by an inspector...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot Is Second In Slalom Meet | 2/11/1965 | See Source »

...Continent than in England, many Britons have them made to order while vacationing there-and thus are subject to customs duties on the lenses when they come home. According to a possibly apocryphal tale, when one returning Englishwoman swore she had nothing to declare at London airport, the customs inspector tapped her right eyeball and inquired sweetly: "Are you sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Lens Insana | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...flak; in SAC circles he is fondly, but not to his face, known as "Three-Finger Jack." In 1946 he helped plan U.S. atomic tests at Bikini atoll, then joined SAC, which was just being formed. With the exception of a year's tour as Air Force inspector general, he has been a SAC man ever since, most recently serving as Power's deputy commander. He knows all the tools of his trade, is an expert bombardier as well as pilot, knows his way around the inside of a jet engine and the innards of a missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: New Big Gun | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...scored by India's Mohinder Lai, 28, a railroad worker from Saharanpur, who set off a delirious, snake-dancing demonstration by rifling a penalty shot past the Pakistani goalie-thereby becoming an instant national hero. "I'm certain that they will promote me to senior welfare inspector of the railways," said Lai. "They will have to, because of what I did for my country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes on Every Hand | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...months later, on Jan. 15, 1959, Jenkins was arrested for loitering in the same Y.M.C.A. washroom where he was nabbed two weeks ago. At first he was booked on an open charge, photographed and fingerprinted. Inspector Roy E. Blick, then head of the morals division, quizzed Jenkins for 31 hours, finally learned he was a top aide to Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He allowed Jenkins to list his occupation as "unemployed," apparently because he had previously run into trouble in cases involving important people. Blick, now retired, said last week that he had been "leary of talking to the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senior Staff Man | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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