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Word: stood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of amateur diggers sifted through every bucket of excavated earth, collecting more than 40 cartons of potsherds. As each block was recovered, its precise location was noted on a chart so that archaeologists could later determine exactly where the monument stood and how it fell. Eventually, the young archaeologists found and excavated 58 large blocks, which they then correctly reassembled into a section of the ancient monument on an undisturbed area of the basement floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Under the Haberdashery By the City Gate | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...body like Rudi Gernreich, and I doubt that anyone so overflows with ideas." One of his most liberating designs was a simple knit tank suit with no inner construction. It came at a time when women were bathing in suits so full of stays and gussets that they practically stood up by themselves. "Just a revival of swim suits that were worn in the 1920s," he says today, but his 1954 suit, and those that came later have made Gernreich the most famous bathing-suit designer in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...Third Reich, in 1943, Bonhoeffer was allowed to receive visits by Maria, who took him books, laundry and food. She once arrived lugging a huge Christmas tree, causing considerable laughter among the guards. Bonhoeffer "remarked that maybe if he moved his cot out of his cell and stood up for the Christmas season he could accommodate the tree comfortably." Although suspected of treason, Bonhoeffer retained the hope that he would eventually be freed, encouraged Maria to plan ahead for their marriage. "It helped him to envision a specific piece of furniture in our future apartment," she says. "He enjoyed talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Bonhoeffer's Love Letters | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued to the point of regretfulness during the love scene between Siegmund and his twin sister Sieglinde in Act I, later blared and crackled as Wotan and Fricka haggled about the implications of incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: OPERA: Conductor Herbert von Karajan | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...brick about it, but it was buttressed, cloistered, turreted, dedicated, superscribed, as he had never seen anything; though it didn't look old, it looked significant; it covered a large area and sprang majestic into the winter air. It was detached from the rest of the collegiate gronup and stood in a grassy triangle...

Author: By The Bostonians and Henry James, S | Title: Memorial Hall -- 1886 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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