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Word: sloe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arsenal of grown-up ideas about a Little Boy Blue who is as green as they come, especially in bed. The boy, Bernard (Peter Kastner), traverses the stacks of the New York Public Library riding roller skates and dumbwaiters, shuttling between a fast-working actress (Elizabeth Hartman) and a sloe-eyed librarian (Karen Black), wonder- ing which chick to turn. Off duty, he gets knocked about by a Wylie Mom and a wily Dad (Geraldine Page and Rip Torn). In the last reel the boy grows up, puts down his parents and stomps off to his librarian love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up Absurd | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...with the curly brown hair and perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince de Galles Hotel in 1963, along with his slim, sloe-eyed wife Elena, herself a chemist and economics writer. Elena Ceausescu won her bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1963, after Gheorghiu-Dej decided education was an asset for his underlings. At the same time, Ceausescu emerged suddenly with a degree in engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: The Third Communism | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...going to carve roast beef with his Ronson!" gasps the sloe-eyed young thing in a recent ad for Ronson Corp. "Isn't that a bit much for a little cigarette lighter?" Of course it is, but that shows how much she knows about him - or Ronson. He's going to slice the roast with his Ronson Carve 'n' Slice electric knife, just as he shaves with a Ronson shaver, shines shoes on a Ronson electric buffer, and brushes his teeth with a Ronson electric toothbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A Bit Much For a Lighter Company | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...than a year ago, India's ruling Congress Party has been plagued by what Delhi euphemists call "fissiparous tendencies." Put more bluntly, many's the politician who lusts for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's job. Among the splittists: left-leaning ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon; sloe-eyed Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter), Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nehru's sister), and former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 69, who was Shastri's chief rival for the prime ministry. Last week at Bangalore, Desai made his play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Bangalore Torpedo | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...Sometimes, they have stood in front. Still celebrated are the two Trung sisters who mounted elephants to lead a revolt against Chinese overlords in 40 A.D. More recently, Madame Nhu carried the banner in Saigon toward the end of the Diem regime and thought it only proper that her sloe-eyed daughter, Le Thuy, receive a pistol for her 18th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Girls Under Fire | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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