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Word: lamia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Around" sounds like the Beatles's "Norwegian Wood." Like its model, it pushes a sitar or something into prominence, then narrates a man's seduction by some sore of Lamia, from his passive and clouded viewpoint. Once again triple rimes breed doggeral--this time in short, 3-to-a-line phrases like...

Author: By Jeremy W. Helet, | Title: OFF THE RECORD | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Married. Prince Moulay Abdallah, 26, younger brother of Morocco's King Hassan II; and Lamia Solh, 26, golden-haired, Sorbonne-schooled daughter of onetime Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, who was assassinated in 1951; both for the first time; in Rabat, Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Pudding | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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