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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worst of the blazes was in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. Feeding on sere brush, the flames romped through cordons thrown up by 1,400 firemen and raced toward the wealthy residential areas of Lemon Heights, Cowan Heights, Villa Park and Orange Park Acres. Hundreds of residents were routed; 52 buildings were destroyed, most of them houses-some costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Siege Season | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Three old men are sitting on a park bench in Athens, reading newspapers. The man on the left coughs. The man on the right coughs. The first one spits on the ground. The second one spits on the ground twice. They both sigh. The man in the middle throws his paper away and gets up angrily, saying, "For God's sake, enough political conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greece Simmers Under the Colonels | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

...Have you heard the latest? They arrested a man who was accused of making up jokes. They brought him to Pattakos. -- Are you the man who started that joke about the old men sitting on the park bench? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you start the joke about the four meatballs, one of which was a microphone? -- Yes, my general. -- Did you tell the story about the dog who went to Italy so that he could bark freely? -- Yes, my general. -- And why did you do all that? Don't you know this government enjoys the support of 98 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greece Simmers Under the Colonels | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

...director of the new program, Chester W. Hartman '57, assistant professor of City planning, said the Madison Park Area in Roxbury might be the site for one of the planning projects. "I do not want the projects to be limited to just those poverty areas where people assume the need for aid in planning," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSD Will Begin Urban Program | 11/8/1967 | See Source »

...will be leaving Dillon Field House at 2 p.m. for anyone interested in riding out to Franklin Park for the meet...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harriers To Seek Big 3 Title Against Yale, Princeton Today | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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