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Word: sliphorn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American girls-one pink (Woodward), one beige (Carroll)-take a two-week holiday in Paris, where they meet two American boys-one pale (Newman), one brown (Poitier)-in an integrated cave where the boys play sliphorn and piano. At first Newman makes a pass at Carroll, but the kids are quickly segregated, and soon they are in love. For Newman, love is short but art is long; he sends Woodward home and stays in Paris to study music. For Poitier, love is a ticket back to the U.S.; he decides to marry Carroll and join her crusade for racial equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jazz & All That Jazz | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...minutes and 5,000 miles after the blastoff, Timber Hitch plucked from the water a cylindrical instrument package ejected by the Atlas nose cone. Later, it was packed off to the States in a trombone case (it just happens to fit snugly within the shaped confines of a sliphorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: High Polish | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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