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Word: pots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content to let it rust into uselessness. As fast as Badr brought in Egyptian teachers, Czech technicians and Yugoslav pilots and maintenance crews, Ahmad deported them. The Red Chinese built a showcase highway from the port of Hodeida to the capital, but after nine months of use, it is pot-holed and partially blocked by landslides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: Arabia Felix | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...were card-carrying John Birchers, a group of Young Republicans at Harvard burned some elderly elephant ears with the publication of a new magazine, called Advance. Working out of the notorious third floor of Quincy House (Cambridge's perpetual smoke-filled room) these "progressive Republicans" took enough well-aimed pot shots at the entrenched G.O.P. leadership to win them widespread praise, especially from beleaguered liberals in their own party...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Advance | 10/20/1962 | See Source »

...began. Two handsome young men, a thin, dark southpaw from California and a tall blond from Georgia were shipped to Moscow University, where the C.I.A. assimilated them. The sports pages noted briefly that "two fine young prospects" had been expelled from the amateur ranks for smoking pot at Forest Hills, tragically ending their fine careers...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: How It Happened | 9/27/1962 | See Source »

...with the sound of Muzak, a record-breaking advance ticket sale of $2,000,000 assured its long-running success despite the unfavorable judgment of critics. Today's big corporate musicals are almost sure-fire successes because they are symbols of lavish prosperity-a pheasant in every pot, even when it proves to be a turkey. After reading the reviews, Producer Hayward conceded that some changes would be made in Mr. President, but he followed that hopeful news with the non sequitur of the week. Said he: "Critics don't know anything about musicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: President Flintstone | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coo-coo | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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