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Word: nylons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murders of hoodlums were in the local news. The details of their deaths were grimly familiar. Found on lonely roads outside the city, some of the victims had their arms tied behind their backs. The bodies of at least two were marked with cigar burns. Two more had nylon ropes looped around their necks. One man had been shot five times in the mouth, another three times in the neck; a third had been riddled with 38 bullets of various calibers. In all, 102 bullet holes were found in the nine bodies. It was a foregone conclusion that the torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: The Death Squads of Rio | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...nightstick are still the basic tools of restraint. Now police in Detroit think that they have the answer. They have developed a new $10 weapon known as the "nutcracker," which consists of two foot-long plastic sticks joined at one end by four short nylon cords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Nutcracker | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...desperate and imaginative efforts to clear fog from airports, highways and other critical areas, meteorologists have used giant fans, rotating racks strung with nylon strands and chemicals dropped from planes or spewed up ward from strange machines on the ground. Now the U.S. Air Force thinks that it has found a practical new weap on in the continuing fight against fog: the helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meteorology: Chopping a Hole in Fog | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...earnings of $835.5 million, while Atlantic Richfield gained 14.5% over 1967, Mobil 11% and Gulf, California Standard and U.S. Shell each about 10%. The chemical industry was cheered by the end of a slump in sales of synthetic textiles. Du Pont, which derives one-third of its business from nylon and other synthetics, increased its profits 18%, to $372 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earnings: Beyond Expectations | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...looked as if someone had doused her with water. No, said Twiggy, the outfit is supposed to look that way-sopping wet. At a show in London's Ritz Hotel, fashion's will-o'-the-wisp unveiled the latest shapes from her designing firm: slippery nylon tights that have a "liquid look." But why the bags in the knees and the sags in the ankles? "It's just Twiggy," explained Justin de Villeneuve, her perennial fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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