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Word: pined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pine-swathed Bavarian mountain last week, U.S. Hunter Jack Johnson and his German guide suffered silently through a bone-chilling predawn drizzle. Suddenly, the woods ahead came alive to a bizarre sound: a series of clucks, like popping champagne corks, followed by a throaty gurgle. Johnson lurched forward for three steps, only to freeze motionless-one foot poised ludicrously in midair-as the sound stopped abruptly. In such quick, sporadic scrambles, Johnson covered 150 yds. before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Call of the Wild | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Stokowski managed with a standard-sized orchestra and only one choir). All this musical effort supports a series of songs linked by orchestral interludes and based on a medieval Danish story somewhat similar to the Tristan and Isolde legend. King Waldemar has married for political reasons but continues to pine for the Princess Tove. to whom he has presented his castle at Gurre. Tove is put to death by the queen, and Waldemar, as punishment for blaspheming against the gods in his grief, is condemned to ride nightly across the skies in a Wilde Jagd (wild hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Farewell, Romanticism | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...back in 1927, when she felt the first pangs signaling the impending birth of Mary Leontyne Violet Price-a first child after 13 years of barrenness. Her father James, an erect, dignified, sparrow-thin man. now 79, worked in the local sawmills (Laurel used to call itself the Yellow Pine Capital of the World before the woods gave out). Kate Price, an iron-willed woman with some of Leontyne's own incendiary temper, took to midwifery to bolster the family income. Working at first for a fee of $10 per baby-or sometimes for a side of bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Voice Like a Banner Flying: Leontyne Price | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...Dunster House Drama Workshop will open its production of Caligula, starring David G. Gullette '62 in the title role, tonight at a tri-college drama symposium at Pine Manor's Bardwell Auditorium. A preview of the first act will be performed at 8:15 p.m. with productions from Wellesley and Pine Manor Junior College. A critique of the three plays will follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER DRAMA OPENS IN WELLESLEY TONIGHT | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...manor, who can bequeath the privilege or sell it. Thus a priest in search of a parish is never sure to what kind of patron he must sell himself. In Acle, Norfolk, for example, it is Brigadier Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe; in Parracombe, Devon it is the Misses Nind; Colonel Pine-Coffin picks the parson for St. Andrews Alwington, Devon; and Mrs. Power Clutterbuck holds sway in Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge. "The clergy," says the Rev. Lewis Roberts of Peasmarsh, "is the only profession without some trade union to help it improve its pay and condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anglican Church Mice | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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