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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most fascinating menu I ever encountered was in a restaurant in Des Moines, where the waiter handed you a View Master with a reel of eight appetizing color slides of the various specialties, so that you saw exactly what you were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...basis for our analysis of the meaning of an experience in a given moment is a belief in the idea that some sort of change or progress is being made. If we were to take a given moment (say, now), looked around us, and tried to justify what we saw as a finished product, we would lose ourselves in hopeless despair. We now justify what we are doing as being part of a process--since we can't justify what we are doing, we justify how we are doing it. This process has to have a direction...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Understanding Moonshots | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

During the speeches, few people had been watching the planes. The crowd now turned toward the planes, and saw six sailors bearing out a flag-covered coffin. "His last words," Bucher continued, "were that he was proud to have served in the United States Navy.... He was a hero in every sense of the word...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Remember the Pueblo | 1/7/1969 | See Source »

...expected Inga to be a pure Swedish import in the manner of all those Essy Persson pictures I never saw, but it appears to have been actively produced by an American named Gross who has managed to stick a poster from one of his previous efforts, Teenage Mother, in a scene at a local Swedish train station. I imagine he wants to tell us that Teenage Mother has made it as far out of 42nd Street as Stockholm, but don't you believe...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Targets and Inga | 1/7/1969 | See Source »

From Section B, row J, and from the Harvard bench, it was clearly Dullea's foul--and a nasty, dangerous low-bridger at that. But the referee saw otherwise and gave Dover an offensive foul, the sophomore's fifth and disqualifying personal...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Quintet, Skaters Finish Holiday Schedules | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

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