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Word: singeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played by a black whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver jockey shorts, Judas returns from the dead on a butterfly-winged acrobatic bar to ask the doomed Jesus "Why you let the things you did get so out of hand?" He does not sing Swing Low, Sweet Iscariot. But, over a heavy blues-rock beat, he does sound the show's provocative theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Gold Rush to Golgotha | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

Graber said her roommate became involved in drugs in February 1970 and soon became a "central figure" in campus drug life. She said that her roommate often loaned out her key to strangers who were tripping so that they could use the room to sing and play music. This kept her awake, she said...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Vassar Flunkee Claims Smoke Got In Her Eyes | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

There's a slight difference, though. In Boston, over 100 registrars are being provided, primarily for the purpose of registering students; Peter Yarrow will sing; and Rep. Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey (R-Calif.), Sen. George S. McGovern (D-S, Dak.), Allard K. Lowenstein, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.), and others will urge students to vote...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Friday Register-In Set for Cambridge | 10/7/1971 | See Source »

...Having been inside Sing Sing and other penal institutions (as an inspecting grand juror), I advise deliberation in assessing the Attica riot. Commissioner of Correction Russell Oswald made the only possible rational decision. He was facing primitive hysteria, obviously inflamed by subversives. He gave the same order that any field commander facing a public enemy in battle would have given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1971 | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...pink such vulnerable targets as Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes"). The program's interlocutor, Gene Kelly, did not dance, and his material did not sing. Most of the sting in the first two weeks came from sassy Teresa Graves (formerly of Laugh-In) and the blue-collar couple, Warren Berlinger and Pat Finley. The elderly Burt Mustin and Queenie Smith were wry and especially welcome, considering that old people have heretofore been virtually anathema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: II | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

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