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Word: monkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the streets, under billboards depicting exploding American aircraft and vicious, monkey-faced American soldiers bayoneting pregnant women, flow two sorts of traffic: myriads of bicycles and camouflaged military trucks, Uncle Ho's yellow star embellishing their radiators. Creaky old French trams still clatter by in trains of twos and threes punctually every ten minutes-unless stopped in their tracks, as happens ever more frequently when U.S. planes demolish a nearby power source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Red Napoleon | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Britain's Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, must have been feeling like a bigger monkey than the melancholy thane. The Oxford University Liberal Club, in which he'd enjoyed honorary membership "for his past and present services to the Liberal Party," decided in its elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 17, 1966 | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...Sometimes the pseudoliberal can become a monkey on your back," McKissick tartly explained to Charlotte, N.C., Reporter Dwayne Walls shortly before his election. "They have only a partial commitment, and they think in terms of the great progress the Negro has made instead of thinking of the great injustice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Chilling Shift | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...quite ready to claim the pennant-or a niche in the Hall of Fame for Mc Dowell. "A pitcher isn't a great pitcher just because he wins four straight," grunted Tebbetts. "Personally, I think McDowell is going to be great. But let's not put the monkey on his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Sudden Sam, the Shutout Man | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...Wallaby damned! Next time some anteloper is Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know ahead. I roared so, the cubs in our pride were all apeset. Father said: "How horribull, she's been pythoned! Alligator a drink-you kids call the dogtor and giraffter that go bison aspirin. We'll keep her lion down hunter the table and cassowary ibis on the rest of TIME." That'll rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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