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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every day to read the reports on the previous night's raids, then assembles his staff in his war conference room to plot the day's operations, using weather and intelligence reports and checking reconnaissance slides projected on an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. screen. He has authority on his own to strike at some 200 existing targets in North Viet Nam. When his intelligence turns up new ones he would like to hit, the request goes up the chain of command to CINCPAC in H waii or, if it is a particularly sensitive target, to the Joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Rolling the Thunder | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...seemed not only a reasonable but also an essential request, considering the gravity of the subjects he covered. On one occasion the President, who has often said that he considered his TV image "a national liability," interrupted the taping to see how he was coming across on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Nights Before Christmas | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

Viewers are also likely not to feel anything-except numbness-after ingesting this filmed version of Jacqueline Susann's wide screen novel, loose ly based on the troubles of some semi-recognizable showbiz sickies. Among them are a platinum blonde (Sharon Tate) who makes nudies to pay for her husband's stay in a sanatorium; a young singer (Patty Duke) who later turns to bedding down with strangers; and a brassy voiced Broadway zircon in the rough (Susan Hayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Showbiz Sickies | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Harvard pulled away in the third. Pete Mueller fought off two defenders to tip in a centering pass by Bauer at 2:14, and Carr's slap shot went through Don Grimble's screen and the goalie...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Powerful Iceman Crush Brown, 7-3 | 12/18/1967 | See Source »

...tiny Leeward island of Anguilla is roaring like the mouse of fiction and screen," the editorial declared, going on to counsel the Anguillians to give up their foolishness and return to the three-island nation of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla spelled out for them by Great Britain on the eve of decolonization. The ad--signed by Ronald Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Lawyer Has Island for A Client | 12/16/1967 | See Source »

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