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Word: shirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done my first big share of yelling and was feeling rather happy, but then I noticed my shirt. It was all pitted up, and it was only the fourth race. First you have to understand that swimming pools are warm places, that I was very much excited, and that there was a big crowd around, making it really hot. But my shirt was really messed up, and it was my favorite one, and, worse. I had just done a wash. You would never have guessed that I use that extra dry stuff. But it was a sure sign that...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

According to SP5 Jay Roberts, the rampaging G.I.s were not interested solely in killing, although that seemed foremost on their minds. Roberts told LIFE: "Just outside the village there was this big pile of bodies. This really tiny kid ?he only had a shirt on, nothing else ?he came over to the pile and held the hand of one of the dead. One of the G.I.s behind me dropped into a kneeling position thirty meters from this kid and killed him with a single shot." Roberts also watched while troops accosted a group of women, including a teen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Collins is the darling of tennis journalism, and he was making the rounds in style, resplendent in white duck trousers and a knit shirt. We had several minutes of light conversation, and he seemed to be fairly reasonable, Mrs. Garrett notwithstanding...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...size is not enough to signal any turn. Economists find it at best a mildly encouraging sign that the rate of price increases is leveling off. Four prominent Manhattan clothing manufacturers joined last week in a startling call for federal wage-price controls. Said Lawrence S. Phillips, president of shirt-making Phillips-Van Heusen: "Unfortunately, all other efforts to halt inflation have failed. Unless some action is taken immediately, a monetary and social situation rivaling that of Depression days is inevitable." President Michael Daroff of Botany Industries, Richard Schwartz of Jonathan Logan, Inc., and Alfred Slaner of Kayser-Roth gloomily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: INFLATION JAWBONING, NIXON-STYLE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...shirt again, but feeling more confident. I yelled "Hello !" at passing cars instead of "Help !" A young couple in a Volkswagen pulled to the side of the road. But as I approached, the boy in the driver's seat started shouting at me: "You fucker! What the hell is the idea of acting like there's some kind of big emergency when all you want is a ride? I ought to kill...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: On the Road Bard by Thumb | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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