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Word: maiden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maiden public flight the A11 clearly demonstrated the agility and speed that will be the hallmark of to morrow's interceptor. But even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: A Swift Black Bird | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The Beatles hit their nimble stride in a smooth, fresh, unexpectedly funny comedy that is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Need something for an elderly maiden aunt? Here is romantic pish-tush, complete with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The Beatles hit their nimble stride in a smooth, fresh, surprisingly funny comedy that is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Leningrad's Kirov Ballet at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, makes no more sense. There's still the wicked Saracen and the noble Hungarian knight named Jean de Brienne, a duel, an attempted abduction, a wed ding, Spanish and Moorish dances, and of course the maiden Raymonda herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: Dancing That Counts | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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