Word: rayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Death in the Dark. Two men had been killed, both of them noncombatants gunned down in the darkness of the campus. Paul Guihard, a French newspaperman representing Agence France-Presse, was shot in the back while covering the battle. An Oxford workman named Ray Gunter was shot in the forehead while merely watching it. A total of 166 marshals, 30% of all those sent to Oxford, suffered injuries or wounds, along with some 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen...
Divorced. Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith), 41, five times world's middleweight champion; by ex-Showgirl Edna Mae Robinson, 38; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 19 years of marriage, one son; in Juarez, Mexico...
Pontiac's entry is its classy GRAND PRIX, which comes in a special iridescent blue-black, is outfitted with bucket seats and will undersell the Riviera and T-Bird by several hundred dollars. Chevrolet's answer is its Corvette STING RAY fastback hardtop. Breaking sharply with its past, the new Corvette has plush carpets, power steering and optional air conditioning -all features that will alienate true sports-car buffs, but are likely to attract many more buyers...
...when a pair of cartoon characters named Bert and Harry Piel stopped delivering their sudsy-soft sell for Piel's Beer in the New York area. From 1955 to 1960, pompous, pint-sized Bert and his self-conscious older brother Harry (with voices supplied by radio's Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott) fumbled engagingly through ads witty enough to keep chortling viewers out of the bathroom during program breaks. Last week Bert and Harry fans were chortling again. After a painful hiatus, during which Piel's advertising consisted largely of jarring jingles, the struggling Brooklyn brewery-which...
...Show." Medikaiser is based on two fundamental principles enunciated back in 1932 by Physician Ray Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior. Doctors practice best in groups, Dr. Wilbur argued, because they can instantly call on each other's special skills. Patients, he was convinced, make the best use of doctors' services when they pay for them in advance. But organized medicine bitterly opposed prepaid group practice for years, and much of the antagonism remains...