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Word: packets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the pact was announced, Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat received a packet rigged to explode when opened. It was hardly a brotherly act, and Fatah was quick to blame Israeli agents. There was some suspicion, however, that rival Arab commandos might have been the guilty senders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: TOWARD OPEN WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...turned me on? what junkie pressed his packet, fixed me in his need until I moan for his sweet sake? You liar, love's a racket, at best only a connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry: Combatting Society With Surrealism | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...introspective, he guarded his own privacy as carefully as that of his subjects. Taking a packet of sketches down from a cupboard to show to a critic one day, he remarked: "It's dreadful, revealing all these secrets." Self-revelation proved so distressing that Vuillard demanded in his will that the notes he made about his paintings remain sealed until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Quiet Observer | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...repeatedly been in the company of known addicts, but Officer Martin had not seen or heard anything else suspicious. Nonetheless, he approached the suspect and told him: "You know what I am after." The suspect reached into his pocket and so, simultaneously, did Martin. The policeman grabbed a packet of heroin. In reversing the resulting narcotics conviction, the court ruled that Martin did not have a good reason to stop the man; merely being in the company of known addicts is not sufficiently suspicious. Also, the frisk was illegal. None of the facts should have prompted a "reasonable fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Approval to Stop & Frisk | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Cutting Capers. Then a fairy gold-mother appears, a working madam (Beatrice Straight) willing to aid a matron in distress with a part-time afternoon job as a $100-an-hour call girl. Barbara is appalled-but not for long. When a packet of almost $5,000 arrives addressed to Nelson, it is clear to the audience, if not to him, that his wife is making good in the oldest business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Tattletale-Grey Comedy | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

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