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Word: skunking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officers of U.S.S. Safeguard (ARS-25) noted with much interest your story, "The Skunk Watchers" [Oct. 14]. As Safeguard is a sister ship to the U.S.S. Conserver (ARS-39), we found to our amazement that our relative is a "rust-pitted, rickety tug" that apparently is doing well to stay afloat, let alone actually operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1966 | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...strident capitalist rock 'n' roll. No sooner had the Gidrofon left than a new trawler appeared on Yankee Station: the Ampermetr. The Conserver was also relieved; Hilder and his crew set off for some well-deserved R and R in Hong Kong, and a fresh set of skunk chasers took over the watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Skunk Watchers | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...have had dozens of reporters descend on me since this thing came up," said Mrs. Salley, "and I have had the pleasure of telling each of them that Jonathan Daniels is a skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: F.D.R. & Lucy (Contd.) | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished fared no better: he called Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune, "a skunk, a eunuch, a missing link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man on the Raft | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs to heckle a Republican mayor. In Detroit, his crowd distinguished itself by presenting the president of Wayne State University, of whom the Alinsky-ites disapprove, with a live skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Strength Through Misery | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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