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Word: sledded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy research installation. Eight-hundred miles out on the ice, in an area usually populated only by polar bears, seals, and occasional gulls, four British explorers have set up a summer camp on a floe of old ice. They have been traveling for more than four months by dog sled...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: From the Far Corners of the Earth... | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...East Germany, 9-0, then handed the U.S. squad its third straight defeat, by the equally lopsided score of 10-2. Nine-time World Champion Eugenio Monti, at 40, demonstrated that he has lost none of his skill and daring by piloting Italy's No. 1 sled to victory in the first two heats of the two-man bobsled. And no one could keep pace with Russia's Ludmila Titova in the ladies' 500-meter speed-skating race, although three U.S. girls-Minnesota's Mary Meyers, Illinois' Dianne Holum and Ohio's Jenny Fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: Neither Sleet Nor Snow | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water ($14), and a six-man international task force of "action soldiers of the world"-French, German, Japanese, British, Australian, and a fur-capped Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Front & Center | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Knob" in combat over Korea, and then merrily marries the girl before his rival can edit the obit. Scott in reprisal busts up the formation again. Tony is shipped off to arctic survival school, where the poor twerp shaves in leftover coffee, sleeps with a nice warm sled dog and sits miserably slurping puree of blubber in the path of a polar blizzard. Scott meanwhile reclines contentedly (though temporarily) in the soft white arms of Tony's missus, who comfily explains: "I've always wanted two of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Squaring the Triangle | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...women make the most careful watchers. They know that the locust will be the last to lose its leaves, that its red will last nearly to Christmas. The women will not see the tree stripped, nor will they see the children who sled down the steps when snow fills some of the spaces; but the library caretakers and guards will take note and tell the women in the spring. All this pleases them. They are saddened only when the rain drives them from the steps or tourists pushing baby carriages ask that they move so this or that view will...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Steps of Widener | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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