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Word: occasionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visiting the Far Eastern industrial city of Khabarovsk to present the Order of Lenin to the territory for its economic achievements, he used the occasion to answer the Red Chinese, who claim that huge areas of Russia's eastern provinces, including Khabarovsk, were unjustly seized by the Czars from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Wisdom in Watermelons | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

It was a bright and sunny morning, and a great crowd had gathered on the grassy expanse of Leopoldville's Grand Place. Small boys were perched in trees to get a better view, and teen-agers jammed the roof of the nearby African culture center. In the center of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Black Hoods in the Square | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

"I am afraid," wrote Robert Ely, editor-publisher of The Sixties, "this symposium will be another occasion for self-congratulation by little-magazine editors. So I will say a few rude words. American little magazines are for the most part utterly pointless. Almost all are mediocre. A near example is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Lumps for the Little Ones | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

To its many critics, the Central Intelligence Agency is something of an iceberg in the warm estuaries of democracy. Since hermetic secrecy is an endemic and essential characteristic of espionage, the CIA is mostly invisible, largely inscrutable, and publicly unaccountable. Yet this very immunity to outside inspection has long irked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Tracking the Iceberg | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Two years ago, women in the area reported a series of insensate attacks. A mother driving her car was halted by a pile of logs, after which a hidden rifleman opened fire, shattering her infant son's nursing bottle. One night, as his wife prepared for bed, another resident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Battle of Gobbler's Knob | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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