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Word: molotovs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehearse the catechism of Kremlin clichés. He did, hopeful U.S. diplomats noted, leave open a minuscule area for potential negotiation by acknowledging Israel's right to national existence and mentioning the need for a "common language" among the great powers. Otherwise he sounded like a technocrat's Molotov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Summit in Smalltown | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...white hats" who proved so effective in Tampa and Dayton (see following story) was recruited the next day to help dampen any potential riot sparks. Dixie Hills looked as if it might avoid serious bloodshed. Shortly after dark, however, there was another brief flurry of rock throwing, and a Molotov cocktail landed at the feet of policemen patrolling the area. Almost instantaneously at least one shotgun blast was fired, killing an onlooker and injuring three others, one critically. Though police insisted that a sniper had fired the shot, all four victims were indisputably hit with the No. 00 shot used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Recipe for Riot | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...American University in Beirut was hit by Molotov cocktails, and Americans were insulted openly in the streets -in many cases for show. In Beirut, cabled TIME Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, "an Arab friend accosted me on the street, mumbled, 'I have to do this or my friends won't respect me,' and spat literally in my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: Exodus, Economy-Class | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

When one song triggers only three uprisings, she composes another she is sure will be a blockbuster: "A Molotov cocktail or two/ Will blow up the boys in blue." Could it be Joan Baez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comics: Which One Is the Phoanie? | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...themselves funeralized. Momentarily I expect someone to say, 'Don't he look natural?' " Now 87, Jimmy Byrnes and Maude, his wife of 60 years, were still looking mighty spry as they posed in his office under the portraits of some of Jimmy's old acquaintances-Molotov, Roosevelt, Stalin and Eisenhower. Long retired from statecraft, Jim keeps active by overseeing the James F. Byrnes Foundation, which he organized in 1947 to provide college scholarships for needy students. The youngsters, in turn, have given the childless Byrneses a bronze plaque inscribed: "To Mom and Pop Byrnes from your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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