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Word: spotlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...available for every home. They will cook a steak in two minutes, a baked potato in four seconds, greaselessly so that the oven never needs cleaning. An ultrasonic breakthrough in the use of sound waves for cleaning promises dishwashing in minutes without water. Shoes and clothes may be whisked spotless ultrasonically as the wearer enters the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Prometheus Unbound | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...spotless laboratories, well locked and hidden away in the basements of the world's great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at "restoring" art masterpieces. They can take a brown, wrinkled, flaking canvas and turn it into a picture that looks like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Restoration Drama | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Morons." Would the Combs home measure up? A spotless $17,000 ranch house, it is filled with toys and African violets; the yard has swings, a slide, a sandbox. On his $119-a-week salary, Dick Combs hoped some day to send both Alice Marie and his own two younger daughters to college. Nor was there any question of Alice Marie's affection for her foster parents. Often she woke in the night, crying: "Mommy, are you still here?" But the social workers were unsatisfied, lined up what they considered more suitable parents, a childless couple with 1) more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's a Good Parent? | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Cary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Gary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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