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Word: piercee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bed of Stakes. So devilish have Charlie's contraptions become that not even veteran demolition men can be sure of avoiding them. Land mines lie buried in paddy trails; coconuts filled with explosives hang in jungle trees. A nylon trip wire can plunge a man onto a bed of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Thread of Death | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Yale has two more sophomores-Bob Yahon and Carl Pierce-who will give Princeton and Harvard a lot of trouble in the second line. And juniors Ben Henneke and captain Steve Boyer will be tough too.

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Harriers Are Underdogs in Big Three Meet | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Died. Jane Bunche Pierce, 33, U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche's daughter, a housewife with three small children; of injuries suffered when she fell or jumped from the roof of her nine-story apartment building; in The Bronx, New York City.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Sound & Fury. Using 700-ton magnets, Harvard's cyclotron fires a proton beam with the force of 160 million electron volts. But after leaving the cyclotron, the protons travel a precise and predictable distance before they release their power. Careful positioning of the patient allows the beam to pierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instrumentation: The Machines of Progress | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

The public, understandably worried by warnings of the increasing dangers from crime, focuses on the issues and incidents which make good newspaper copy or television footage -- the brutal or daring crime; riots; capital punishment; the Supreme Court vs. the police; the skillful duel between counsel in the trial of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Do We Really Know About Crime? | 10/6/1966 | See Source »

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