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Word: saucers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion of man as the dreamer of age-old dreams led him into a mystic world. His life was plagued by occult phenomena (poltergeists threw his books about; blinding pain awakened him at the instant a patient was committing suicide), and his dreams even came to include flying saucers. In the morning he would ponder: perhaps the flying saucer is a magic lantern, and I-I am only the picture it projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dark & Light of Dreams | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Well, it does seem a pity. The Great Dismal Swamp story has a shuddery, compelling quality. Thomas Moore, after seeing the swamp's saucer-shaped Lake Drummond, wrote a ballad about a young man who went mad over the death of his beloved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: Swamps & Split Levels | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...saucer-shaped disk skimmed into the air to be caught (perhaps) by a fellow Frisbier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Up in the Air | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Bernd Schmidt had been captured by Maria Hoelscher, an elfin girl with saucer-like brown eyes and a ponytail. He had to return to his home near Mannheim and his job as an apprentice lathe operator, but as soon as he saved enough money for them to marry, Maria planned to leave East Germany and join him. Then the Communists built the Wall, dividing the lovers as well as Germany. Last week Bernd Schmidt went again to Leipzig. He met Maria in a Weinstube and they tried to think of a way to smuggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Man with a Suitcase | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...keep its competitors in the dark as to the Cardinal's appearance (Ford's typical saucer-size taillights, vestigial fins and probably a Thunderbird-like grille), Ford has been testing the car in semi-disguised form in Germany and Italy (see cut). Main Cardinal features: a front-wheel drive that will eliminate the troublesome "hump" caused by the drive shaft in most cars; a 70-h.p., V-4 engine that promises up to 35 miles per gallon of gas and rockets the little car along at more than 80 m.p.h. ; sculptured styling that will allow for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Coming for 1963 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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