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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles de Gaulle, which was bannered in advance by the French press. In the event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON IN EUROPE: RENEWING OLD ACQUAINTANCES | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...each other with a look of simultaneous discovery and fondness -and kissed, smack on the lips. The ABC Department of Broadcast Standards and Practices (the censors) deleted the actual contact of the lips, but the audience knew exactly what was going to happen after the rest of the scene ran intact. Half a dozen other racial jokes were included in the one-hour show, including jabs at the N.A.A.C.P., the K.K.K. and black militant students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Black Can Be Funny | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Javelin Catcher. The Laugh-In producers put together a whole hour of such material, a sort of all-black Laugh-In called Soul, which NBC ran as a special earlier this season. In a typical bit, Redd Foxx told Slappy White of the first Negro athletic-scholarship winner at the University of Mississippi -"He's a javelin catcher." White observed that Oct. 27 is a Negro holiday - "That's the day when the new Cadillacs come out." In one sight gag, George Kirby stretched out on a beach mat, opened a bottle of suntan oil and slathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Black Can Be Funny | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...Levine ran alone in yesterday's election and lost. He said he considered taking Miss Kleinberg to the meetings with him if he had been elected. In the past, the committee has permitted its members to bring guests to meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Committee Turns Its Back When Cliffie Tries to Win a Seat | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

...least to wait quietly until someone calls the police to escort him. The inadequacy of the system was well illustrated last week when a man entering Jordan J rushed the girl on bells and she screamed and fled. He then went into the dining room, stabbed a girl, and ran away...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Insecurity at the Cliffe | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

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