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Word: pail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another case led to a secret room, hollowed out of the hillside behind the garage of a $45,000 home in a Westchester County suburb, north of New York City. The items confiscated there included half a pail of capsules marked "SKF" (for Smith Kline & French, the makers of Dexedrine), a small barrel of counterfeit Seconals, paper bags containing yellow tablets imprinted "Ciba," bags of waterlogged, unidentified tablets, and a 110-lb. drum marked "Made in Italy" and containing a dubious white powder. Added together these items gave the FDA an unusually persuasive collection of evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Counterfeit Prescriptions | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...encounter with the Spaniard's wife (Amanda Vaill) is one of the most skillfully done of the numerous incidents connecting life in the insurance broker's apartment and the people at the Pretty Pussy. When the women unconsciously exchange what they are carrying -- Lucienne's parasol for Eugenie's pail -- we are reminded of just how much fraud we are seeing...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: A Flea in Her Ear | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...Second Chance. What would be included? Virtually everything, from a man's school records to his employment history, from his traffic violations to his religious affiliations, from his military service to his credit rating. Those who resent this computer snoopery decry it as "a great, expensive, electronic garbage pail" that defiles every American's right to keep his private life private. Representative Gallagher goes so far as to predict that private homes will have to take the same precautions that embassies are forced to take now: "The essential ingredients of life will be carried on in soundproof, peep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future: Data Vampire | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Next day the riots had subsided -partly because police allowed the hydrants to gush until 5 p.m. before closing them. Then a Negro girl doused a cop with a pail of water, and the slum ignited once more. That night and the next, the level of violence increased by almost geometric progression, spread ing west and south to cover an area eight miles square. Negroes stopped automobiles driven by whites and beat the occupants. Small gangs pillaged scores of shops. They hurled fire bombs, rocks and chunks of masonry at the firemen who responded to the alarms. As Molotov cocktails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Races: Battle of Roosevelt Road | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...memory shimmers in the brimming pail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Name of the Void | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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