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Word: stokely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Thompson last week, declining to disclose how much he had made or lost on the venture: "For the sake of international relations, we will stoke up Bon Jour and putt off into the night." Building up steam, Thompson achieved at least one thing. Though it still bans commercials, the state radio is playing noticeably lighter music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: Bon Soir, Bon Jour | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...Little Misfit to the town of Winter Overcotes. The title might be Enter Sir Robert, The Duke's Daughter or even Love Among the Ruins, but the contents never varied. There was always just enough plot to hold together a succession of chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always absent) is a pill. Gradually, as the Barsetshire books piled up, nearly everyone of note in the county appeared, married and begat (hardly anyone died), and Storyteller Thirkell confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perfect Thirkell | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...Harold Stoke, President of Queens College, said that the ban on Communists would probably not apply to visiting dignitaries from Communist countries. A speech by a foreign Communist would have educational value, he explained, while a speech by a native member of the party could only be aimed at propagandizing among students...

Author: By J. LEE Auspitz, | Title: Crimson's Ad Protests Ban On Speeches | 11/21/1961 | See Source »

...Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Only Sense | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower vetoed or the Republicans closed ranks in opposition, that would stoke up the campaign too. Said Jack Kennedy: "The American people will be quick to spot obstructionist tactics aimed at keeping us from enacting much of this legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Follow the Leader | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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