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Word: leising (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Descending from a Pan American thrift flight in Honolulu, Lynda Bird Johnson, 20, was nearly strangled by a nest of welcoming leis. "I can't see," she said plaintively. They kept coming. "I can't stand another one." So it went, for the eight days of her Hawaiian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 26, 1964 | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

Hawaii once meant Waikiki-a fabled bit of beach washed by the blue Pacific, where laughing girls wreathed visitors with orchid leis and every day afforded another sun-drenched romp through a paradise of surf and sand, every night (under a perfect moon) another tropical taste of the revelry of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: The Outer Islands Are In | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

"Matson Lines'' used to mean white cruisers ribboning through Hawaiian islands with luau, leis and instant romance for all aboard. As a business. Matson (1962 revenues: $100 million) is somewhat less glamorous. Labor troubles and stockholder squabbles led it into a storm that climaxed in an operating loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Matson's Rescue Drill | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

Like a big (247 Ibs.) bear, Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II sat in a rumpled brown suit, restive under the pink and red leis that draped his neck like a collar, and listened to talks by fellow Republican candidates Peter Chun, Bill Kim, Bob Fukuda and Ted Nobriga. Then came Ben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Big Ben & Young Danny | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

Leis & Poi. Next came Nixon's own home territory, Los Angeles. Welcomed at the airport by 5,000 cheering people and one baby elephant, Nixon led a motorcade to his alma mater, Quaker-run Whittier College, found the football field jammed with 15,000 greeters. Next morning, on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Westward Ho! | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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