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Word: nye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting is the English resort town of Folkestone. Kipps (Tommy Steele) is an 'umble cockney draper's clerk who comes into a hunexpected inheritance, takes up wif a girl (Carrie Nye) from the local haristocracy and proceeds to get engaged. After a heady spell of high life, Kipps is disillusioned and marries a non-U charmer of a chambermaid (Polly James) from his own class. But his ex-fiancée's caddish brother absconds with Kipps's last thruppence. Presto! An alcoholic playwright whom he once befriended showers him with a handsome percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Threepenny Operetta | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...politicking. The same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union. No Cabinet post, but a respectful parliamentary secretaryship went to Jennie Lee, 60, widow of the late Nye Bevan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Man with a Four-Seat Margin | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...tension results from parental intent as well as parental abdication. Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons finds many young parents "committed to a policy of training serious independence in youth," to which children respond with seriousness-and an occasional wistful regret. "I don't get authority at home," sighs Dana Nye, 17, a student at Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles. "We're just a bunch of people who go about our business and live under one roof. One of these days I'd like to sit down and find out from my parents what they really believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Deadly Game. In Stanleyville, Gbe-nye's government-which from the beginning had been so disreputable that not even the Chinese Communists would recognize it-appeared to be on its last legs. Food supplies were running out, and the few remaining scraps were being black-marketed at many times their normal worth. Rebel savages, hopped up by dope and voodoo spells, pillaged the city almost unchecked. And from the surrounding rebel countryside came tales of kangaroo courts that forced their victims to swallow gasoline, then sliced them open and ignited them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The Rebels Collapse | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Fred Astaire, in his first TV musical comedy, plays a record-company owner who is trying to put a popular comedian (Louis Nye) under contract. Fred also dances...

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

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