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Word: knobbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only eight years old, were arrested with guns in their possession. Last week in Oklahoma, two brothers, 12 and 10, were charged with shooting a 49-year-old grocer to death. Startling accidents happen, especially around inexperienced gun handlers. A Detroit man heard footsteps in his home, saw the knob of his bedroom door open slowly, leveled his bedside pistol?and fatally drilled his three-year-old daughter through the head. In Gunnison, Colo., Robert Delaney was riding along a dirt road on a motorbike when a shot rang out. His 15-year-old son Kirk, following on another motorbike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...Burbank, Calif., Sound Engineer Bill Cole looked a little like an octopus playing the organ. As Singer Andy Williams eased into the opening bars of an up-tempo number, Cole scanned a bewildering battery of gauges and began twiddling and tweaking some of the console's 250 multicolored knobs and switches that are linked to a forest of microphones in the studio. One knob channeled Williams' voice through an echo chamber; others-muffled or brightened various sections of the orchestra. The drums alone were surrounded by four microphones through which Cole, by deftly manipulating tone and volume controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering: Cole at the Controls | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...door to Writer John Koffend's office was closed. Researcher Nancy Atkinson, a sheaf of material for this week's Essay in hand, knocked and then tentatively turned the knob. Koffend was lying on the floor - but there was no reason for alarm. "Pardon me," he said, "I was just doing my push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...title of a song often sends him into his rap: "Yeeaaaaaah," he sighs at the end of one cut, twirling the reverb knob, "which was Manny Nichols. 'Throw me a little Boogie.' Just keep dancing. That was like the secret to a very peaceful life--dance!--not many people are dancing anymore... Oh yes, you'll say that people are: 'Look at this place, look at that place, look at all the people who are dancing.' But in comparison to the amount of people there are, forget it (reverb), not many people are dancing (electronic noises in background) and people...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: Uncle T's Freedom Machine Gives Boston Radio a 20,000 Watt Jolt | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...active core of 3,000 workers in ten branch offices throughout the city. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King traveled to Cleveland to campaign for him. All told, Stokes's volunteers distributed 60,000 bumper stickers (to Locher's 14,000), passed out another 60,000 door knob notices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleveland: Vindicative Victory | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

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