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Word: rubbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is one other: a strange creature, half monster and half man; with a clown's white face, dressed in a rubber coverall, listed in the program as a "schmurz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Absurd' Drama From Paris Very Well Played at Harvard | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

...other Memphian," i.e., with a drawl). Other witnesses recounted in detail how a man of that description ran from the rooming house at the time of the shooting (6:01 p.m.), leaped into a white Mustang with no front license plate (all Tennessee cars have two), and then "laid rubber" up the road. Those clues-plus a total reward offer of $100,000-seemed more than enough to turn up the killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man in Room 5 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...recall," says Roberts, "nobody has ever been invited to be a member of this club that Bob and I haven't met." Augusta National's dues are a secret, as is its membership list-although some of the members are so prominent (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rubber Baron Leonard Firestone, Sportsman John Hay Whitney) that their identities are hard to hide. And no club has stricter rules. Unlike other clubs, where a member merely has to vouch for his guests, for example, Augusta members must physically accompany guests around the course to make certain all niceties are observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Monument to the Game | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Fathers & Sons. If the government felt disposed to redress any grievances, there was no sign of it in Warsaw. Police turned a water-gun truck and tear-gas launchers on the mob, waded into its midst with rubber truncheons and hustled some 300 off to police headquarters. At least six students accused of being ringleaders got jail sentences of four to six months. To prevent a spread of violence to factories, the government transported busloads of workers to antiprotest rallies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The View from Headquarters | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...program that his supporters promise will shrink the role of the Communist Party and bring a semblance of democracy to Czechoslovak public life. Among the reforms currently being debated in the party Presidium is one that would make the Czechoslovak National Assembly a representative body rather than a party rubber stamp. Dubček, who has heavy backing among white-collar workers and young technicians, is also expected to further free the economy from bureaucratic controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Outcry in Purgatory | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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