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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spit of land overlooking Manila Bay, a glistening, 205-ft. tower spewed steam one day last week-and the technicians who watched could hardly have been more excited if they had just launched a moon rocket. The tower is the heart of the first oil refinery in southeast Asia to be controlled and managed by Asians. Sprawled across 230 acres 22 miles south of Manila, the Filoil refinery will ultimately turn out 17,000 barrels of high-octane gasoline and other products daily. "This," said Filoil President Ramon V. del Rosario. "is a dream come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Mr. Five-Year Plan | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...says roly-poly Friedrich Jahn, 39, "is to become the European Howard Johnson." He is well on the way. Only seven years ago, Austrian-born Jahn was a waiter in a Munich striptease nightclub. Today he runs a money-clinking chain of 111 "Wienerwald" restaurants that serve up spit-roasted chicken, Viennese wine, and recorded zither music to 100,000 customers a day in 58 German cities. Partly because of Jahn's promotional abilities, German consumption of chicken has increased nearly fourfold since 1955 (to last year's average 13 Ibs. per person), and West Germany has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Ruler of the Roost | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...expressed by Stanley Baldwin's vow, on resigning as Prime Minister in 1937: "I won't spit on the deck, and I shan't shout at the helmsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Their Tiredest Hour | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...been camping out for 30 years," says one father, "but my boy has taught me things I never knew. If I dropped a spent match out of a car window these days, I think he'd make me stop, walk back, pick it up and spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning Naturally | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

...drastically, even a little bit of 'ye olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Looking Backward | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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