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Word: reapers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors had removed his elbow but not all the steel fragments. It was a sloppy operation, said Frishman, because the doctors "are willing only to do what is necessary to keep us alive." Because of his loosely dangling forearm, he was known to his fellow inmates as "The Grim Reaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Blowing the Whistle | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...commercial networks, public television has plenty of time available for the exploration of "social" questions, and it is a charter well worth pursuing. This month the National Educational Television channels are carrying a pair of muckraking documentaries on the plight of the migrant farm worker. No Harvest for the Reaper is a chronicle of exploitation of Negro migrants on Long Island; Huelga!, a report on the 1965-67 Mexican grapepickers' strike in California. Both films contained remarkable and affecting footage, although they were more successful as polemics than TV journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Affairs: Bitter Harvest | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "No Harvest for the Reaper" graphically documents the exploitation of migrant workers on Long Island potato farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 2, 1968 | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...without flak, and when you get there, they are all stirred up and mad as hornets." "As a matter of fact," he adds, "on our base we call the guy who wakes us up before a JCS strike 'the Grim Reaper'-and it isn't funny either." Hardly. On one attack east of Hanoi last week, four Navy planes were shot down in 35 minutes by a particularly accurate cluster of guns tucked into a river bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Wings of Destruction | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...ones who hastily contracted the wanderlust bug after noting how well The Fugitive was doing on the lam. The most blatant copy will be Run for Your Life (NBC), in which Ben Gazzara is told he has 18 months to live (roughly three TV seasons). So with the grim reaper on his trail, he sets off to live dangerously all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Quoth the Ratings: Ever More | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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