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Word: rimless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked at Professor Bowie first. Assistant Secretary of State under John Foster Dulles, I remembered. His Erik Erikson- colored hair was neatly cropped. The metal bridge of his rimless glasses had worn a level plateau at the top of his nose. It was the same kind of bridge that I had on my glasses. I will have a level plateau on the top of my nose too. It was the second day in his white shirt. Nevertheless, very elegant...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...responsibility is well placed, for Burns is known as a trenchant economic analyst and a man of formidable composure. His powers of concentration are legendary, his manner ineradicably professorial. His pewter grey hair is parted down the middle. His brown eyes squint slightly through rimless glasses. His voice is somewhat reedy, worn to didactic evenness by 40 years of lecturing. "I regard myself primarily as a scholar interested in government," he says, teeth clenching one of the hundred or more pipes he owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Minister Without Portfolio | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...seemed an unlikely sort of man to be a combat general. Dour, shy, peering at the world through sedate, rimless glasses, he looked more like a college president or a banker. His voice was soft, his language reserved. A small measure of the man was his constant companion, a big, silver German shepherd named King, who had been sent to Viet Nam as a sentry dog but had proved too tame for the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Unusual General | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...abortive erotic interlude with a woman (Gunnel Lindblom), for the most part Oscarsson is left alone to disintegrate in the worn suit and the bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable power. The shiny eyes dance behind rimless glasses, the arguments with God become a grudge fight, consciousness and the dream state mix until the tragedy plays itself out upon the bare stage of a wrecked mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Hunger | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...trim, soft-spoken Hansen, gazing intently from behind rimless glasses, said he would not consider eliminating from the paper's standard vocabulary the four-letter words and sexual allusions that have stirred the ire of two Cambridge mayors, the police, and Governor John Volpe...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Police Nab 15 for 'Avatar' Sales; 5 Harvard Students Among Them | 2/6/1968 | See Source »

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