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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital role of Bolingbroke is in the hands of another Festival newcomer, Charles Cioffi. Though I saw Madden's Hamlet, I've never seen Cioffi before. It is a pleasure to report that he is properly robust, appropriately broadshouldered, and possessed of a splendidly trained voice. He delivers the "sun sets weeping" speech beautifully--the only trouble is that Shakespeare wrote it for another character...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Richard II' Has Highly Engrossing King | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

HOMER?!" A distinguished Democrat could hardly believe the news that Lyndon Johnson had nominated his friend of two decades, William Homer Thornberry, 59, to the Supreme Court. Equally incredulous was a clutch of conservative Republicans, who saw the nomination as a political payoff to an old crony whose judicial credentials fall somewhat short of the standards demanded by the nation's highest court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...this is our war and our year and it's different. At least different than expected or advertised. There have been war years before, in fact the classes of 1918 and 1943 which share the festivities with us today saw their class day ceremonies filled with uniforms. But then, in those days, there was a certain pride attached to the wearing of a uniform...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...There are a lot of San Francisco people in Boston this summer. You run into them around. You'd be on the Common and you'd see a lot of people there you saw on the Pan-handle last summer...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Sunday Afternoon on Cambridge Common With Troy Fleming and the Family Dog | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

...first, officials feared that the concrete-hard clay track was short, but a careful survey showed that it actually measured 100 meters and 4 in. Then the timers came under attack: "I was watching their hands," insisted one onlooker, "and I saw some of the fastest fingers in the West." Maybe. But in the cases of Greene, Hines and Smith, an automatic Bulova Accutron Phototimer confirmed that all three had indeed broken Mary's mark. Their times were therefore submitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation for official recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: Breaking the Dash Barrier | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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