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Word: screensful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The year is 1967. On U.S. air defense screens, an Unidentified Flying Object is spotted near Greenland. Is this a Russian attack? Against that possibility, U.S. bombers speed to various "fail-safe" points. If the Soviet Union has really started war, the bombers will rain nuclear death on Russia; if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Fact & Fiction | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

He has a face like a bloodhound that has just eaten an escaped convict, an image that was once permitted on movie screens only if the dog died in the end. But movies are artier than ever, and the rough features of Anthony Quinn, which have long hidden a consummately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: In Total Demand | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

The American block against learning languages is about to be assaulted by a couple of almost irresistible invitations to speak French. Due soon on U.S. TV screens are two sets of language teaching films, both particularly strong on the femine gender. In one series the teacher is trim Actress-Playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Bringing on the Bulldozers. A year ago, downtown Pomona seemed to be a terminal case. The main drag, Second Street, was a sorry sight; a third of its buildings were vacant, shops that once were elegant had become clustered holes-in-the-wall-paint peeling, screens rusted to holes. Businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Before the Mall Palls | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Mr. Machine has already sold more than $14 million worth since it first strode across TV screens in 1960. Glass pays his 25 designers between $18,000 and $30,000 a year, but being an elf in Santa Glass's workshop involves more hard work than ho, ho, ho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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