Search Details

Word: neon-lit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...tunnel entrance, Swiss and Italian formalities are handled in a single customs office, and drivers pay the fares, ranging from 90? for a motorbike to $18 for a bus. The neon-lit tunnel, 14 ft. 9 in. high, rides over a pipeline that brings oil from Genoa to a Swiss refinery at Collombey. The new St. Bernard, which will be formally inaugurated by the presidents of Italy and Switzerland in June, is the world's longest auto tunnel. But not for long. The Mt. Blanc tunnel of over seven miles from France to Italy will surpass it when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Easier than Hannibal | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...speechmaking over, Lyndon, his wife and his daughters ducked into the Fontainebleau's plush La Ronde room to watch Cyd Charisse dance, later strolled along neon-lit Collins Avenue. Lyndon got to bed by 2 a.m., was up before 5 to drive to Homestead Air Force Base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The First 100 Days | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...room-service chicken dinner. A professional singer himself for all of seven months, he was traveling with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: There's Nothing to Be Sorry For | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

Overnight Case. Brussels, the scene of Britain's dashed hopes last week, is a dour, neon-lit old maid of a city. On Monday, the cobbled streets were slimy with black slush and blanketed with chilling fog as Britain's chief negotiator. Edward Heath, arrived with his aides. Minister for Commonwealth Affairs Duncan Sandys and Agriculture Minister Christopher Soames. The French, with a fine sense of economy, traveled light; only Luxembourg's four-man delegation was smaller. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville brought only an overnight case, for he knew that he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: A New & Obscure Destination | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...Zone came die Alten, the old ones-elderly people who clung to pensions, apartments, old circles of friends, rather than escape to the West. The East people would file up the damp stairs of Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse in East Berlin, take the elevated, and ten minutes later emerge into the neon-lit bustle of West Berlin. There they were met by relatives, led to well-heated apartments, treated to chocolate, cigars-and pineapple, which is scarce in the East Zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Christmas Carol | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next