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...Washington-a comedown that could cost Willie approximately $10,000 in bonus money if the Orioles win the pennant. Three young players who missed a midnight curfew by 20 minutes got off with lighter sentences: two laps around the field, double time. "Just remember," said Bauer, "if you ream me, I got the last ream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Bopha is the daughter of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, who was the proud host. Graciously he explained the theme of the dance to the spectators: it concerned the encounter of Moni Mekhala, Goddess of Waters, with Ream Eyso, the Storm Spirit. If the mythology was a little confusing, that was only what the world had come to expect of His Royal Highness Norodom Sihanouk Varman, Cambodia's Retired King, Commander in Chief, Supreme National Leader of Buddhism - and known to some unkind Western detractors as "Snookie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Prince & the Dragon | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...mine to yours. Let's get the job done in Cuba ourselves, once and for all. Anger and resentment are not enough to contain encroaching Communism; traditional American action is long overdue. I'll wager the consequences will not be as dire as predicted. S/SGT. CALVIN D. REAM U.S.A.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1962 | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

Long-term Recall. The polysyllables of David Susskind, for example, pooled on the courtroom floor, spread to the walls and up to the ceiling, and held the committee spielbound for 210 minutes. In one triple metaphor, he summarized television drama as "celluloid sausage coming down the pike by the ream." Without referring to his own indifferent and unoriginal shows, Susskind estimated that TV as a whole had become "90% travesty, a gigantic comic strip, a huge ho-hum. I tremble for TV as a professional practitioner-as a father-as a citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Under the Spreading FCC | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...four basic techniques for clearing local arterial roadblocks: 1) cut out the diseased section, pull the severed ends of the artery together and stitch them: 2) make a slit in the side of the artery, insert a special instrument, ream out the fatty debris and close the incision with a couple of stitches; 3) slit the artery lengthwise along the blocked stretch and put a long oval plastic patch in the wall to increase its diameter; 4) make an artificial detour for the blood by splicing a length of plastic tube into the artery, above and below the blocked section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Highways & Byways | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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