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Word: selections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sieg Heil!" For the next night, so that the royal party could see Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in near-perfect security, the Foreign Office had bought up all 1,100 tickets to the Aldwych theater, distributed them to a select audience that included lead ers of London's Greek community. Shortly before curtain time, a false report that a bomb had been planted in the theater led to the additional spectacle of police in evening clothes combing the royal box with a mine detector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Foolish Display | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...specialty, however, is custom-made dresses. She will draw what you describe, take your measurements, and show you her fantastic collection of imported fabrics. Among bolts from Spain to Siam you may select a hand-screened or blocked cotton or silk. One fitting, two weeks, and $25 (and up) later, you will be the proud owner of a Kitty Haas original...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Square Stores Slash Swimsuits | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...held till the fall of 1964. But Laborites feel themselves closer to power than they have at any time in the last dozen years. At week's end Harold Wilson returned to the attack in the Commons, demanding an investigation of the Profumo case by a parliamentary select committee with sweeping powers. The more limited judicial inquiry proposed by Macmillan, cried Wilson, was merely "a cover-up," because, without authority to compel proof or the attendance of witnesses, it would have to collect evidence "from some of the most unmitigated liars in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Lost Leader | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...sure why, though he has some idea. At the Friends Select School in Philadelphia, he recalls, "in my day we had a class of four boys and eleven girls. We once started a football team, and I was put on left end. We then got beaten in our only game, after which we disbanded. I was not athletic and was terrified at being driven into something where I would be ridiculed. I remember paying a boy twenty-five cents to teach me to kick a football. It didn't work. When the girls took over, I fit in better...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: E. G. Boring | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

...food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles of the Imperial Bodyguard Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Small Taste of Unity | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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