Search Details

Word: stoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...action in his station wagon and, using the steering wheel as an easel, started sketching, with TIME'S cover in mind. He recalls: "Whenever I would get out of the car, they would throw bricks at me. I was such a target with that sketchbook! The brick or stone would hit that pastel and it would fly all over. I had gone through all of the TIME photos of Watts when I did the cover on Mayor Yorty of Los Angeles. Yet I wasn't prepared for the real thing. Detroit reminded me of Germany after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 4, 1967 | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...head, it is one of the best tourist treats in the Ozarks. Visitors get to poke around the house, an imposing structure of native stone, redwood and glass that extends 214 ft. along a precipice overlooking Huntsville, Ark. With any kind of luck, they may see the lord of the manor himself, who will, in the fashion of a hard-pressed British peer, show off the ten rooms, five baths and four fireplaces that make up his new pad, and take them for a stroll down Farkleberry Trail. For no extra charge, visitors also get a whiff of a fragrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: Orval's Pad | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...residents of the red brick Hayes Homes housing development across the street and by other cab drivers as well. Out over the cabbies' crackling VHP radio band went the rumor that white cops had killed a Negro driver. Within minutes, cabs and crowds were converging on the grey stone headquarters of the Fourth Precinct in the heart of Newark's over crowded, overwhelmingly Negro Central Ward. By midnight, the first rocks and bottles were clattering against the station-house walls; by the next day, the tinkle of broken glass was counterpointed by cries of "Beat drums, not heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Sparks & Tinder | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...first performances in the U.S. of the work of his countryman Heitor Villa-Lobos, based his own Third Symphony on native macumba (witchcraft) themes. Haroldo glows over the beauty of his native tourmalines, topazes, rubies and garnets, shapes each gem in amoeba forms that follow the structure of the stone. Roberto is infatuated with the dense Brazilian foliage, with its leaves that can be mottled, snowy, blue, asymmetrical, metallic or blood-veined, textured or wildly iridescent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Esthetics: Brazil's Marx Brothers | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Putting cordierite to the test, Ramskou accompanied Navigator Jensen on an SAS flight to Greenland, keeping track of the sun with his stone while Jensen used the twilight compass. His observations were accurate to within 21° of the sun's true position, and he was able to track the sun until it had dipped 7° below the horizon. "I now feel convinced," Ramskou concludes, "that the old Viking sailors with the aid of their sun stones could navigate with enormous accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigation: Magical Stones of the Sun | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Previous | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | Next