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Word: sams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless I can't get into a reserve unit and have to play for Uncle Sam," Lord said, "the Cowboys will try me at tight end, safety, and outside linebacker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carter Lord, Harvard's Star End, Will Sign With Cowboys of NFL | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

Have a lot of people underestimated George C. Wallace? His adroit performance last week left even the skeptics concerned about his effect on the 1968 election. "If you dismiss him out of hand as a clown in an Uncle Sam suit," said Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "you make a grievous error. He is a tough, competent, shrewd politician who has support within the guts of the American electorate-the low income white voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Support from the Guts | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

Fears of MIG & Sam. Well aware of the Marines' dependence on air support, the North Vietnamese are doing everything they can to make the skies over Khe Sanh unsafe. So far, they have managed to destroy only one American C-130 transport and temporarily disable another, but they keep the airstrip under constant fire whenever a plane lands. They are also adding 37-mm. flak to the hundreds of machine guns that already ring the Marine base. U.S. flyers even fear that SAMS and MIGS may soon be used around Khe Sanh; in fact, B-52s are now escorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Living on Air: How Khe Sanh Is Sustained | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

CRIMINAL JUSTICE End for a Klan Klawyer Whenever Ku Klux Klansmen needed legal aid in Mississippi, they invariably turned to Lawyer Travis Buckley. A cocky, stocky, pugnacious little man with jug ears, Buckley, 35, was chief defense attorney in last October's trial of Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, and the 17 others accused of conspiring to kill three civil rights workers in 1964. Bowers and six co-defendants were convicted, but Buckley filed an appeal that has kept them all out of jail. Next on his agenda was the defense of Bowers -and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: End for a Klan Klawyer | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose. In the 1920s, she was one of Sam Goldwyn's original Goldwyn Girls, earning $250,000 a year -but then came the talkies and the fading of her nova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

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