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Word: lightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAIT UNTIL DARK. A blind woman (Audrey Hepburn), the nearly helpless victim of a trio of terrorists led by Alan Arkin, tries to even the score by removing all the light bulbs in her house but forgets the one in the refrigerator-with chilling results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 24, 1967 | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...Thank you God, thank you God!" shrieked Lockman's fiancee after hearing the relatively light sentence. Lockman, fully prepared to get the five-year maximum, shouted: "I'm not crying because I'm sad. I'm crying because I'm happy!" After the automatic review of the case at Sixth Army headquarters, Lockman's attorneys plan appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Two Who Stayed Home | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Many new industries, mostly concerned with electronics, computers and light machinery, have moved into sites along Route 128 on the outskirts of Boston. But the Boston school system has not been sensitive to this expansion of the job market. "While companies along Route 128 are crying out for skilled machinists and engineers," Gopen says, "Boston schools are still teaching woodworking and cabinet-making. Mel King, now head of Congress of Racial Equality, ran for the school board a few years ago on a platform of connecting Boston vocational schools with Route 128. But he was defeated...

Author: By Robert C. Pozen, | Title: A Settlement House With a Difference | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

...program is changing. Since the House wants the boys to develop more responsibility, the boys now are paid by the quality of the job, not by the hour. Second, the group is trying to organize a light construction cooperative because, as one teenager explained, "We want to be more independent and make more money." "We have about $280 in the bank," another added. "So we could buy saws, hammers, buffers, and other equipment. Then we'd be able to take on some bigger jobs...

Author: By Robert C. Pozen, | Title: A Settlement House With a Difference | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

...dressed in my big shoes and wrinkly socks And one of the light blue, much-laundered smocks The men and women of this country wear All of us miss our own underwear And the old days...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

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