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Word: straws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunter, who with Screen Writer Oscar Brodney has enriched the world (and Universal Pictures) with three Tammy sagas so far, promises more to come: "Give 'em what they want, I always say, until they don't want it any more." Perhaps the time has come for a straw vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Florence Nightmare | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 5, 1963 | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Hitchcock deserves his award. The Busy Martyr is welcome relief from much of the insipid summer fare often presented at straw hat theaters, and is well worth a trip to Medford...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: The Busy Martyr | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

With a capacity for some 400 patients, Schweitzer's clinic is forever jammed. The sick, carrying paper tags with their names, villages and tribes, wait for hours to see the doctors, are bedded down on straw-mattress cots in dark, stench-ridden huts whose earth floors are awash during the rainy season. Outside, over open fires, the patients' women relatives cook, while a horde of chickens, dogs and goats (protected under Schweitzer's "reverence for life" mystique by which no living thing should be unnecessarily disturbed) roam at will, adding freely to the surrounding filth. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Albert Schweitzer: An Anachronism | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Backstage at the Valley Forge Music Fair, Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, 45, had to take off his hat to Actress Mamie Van Doren, 30. The State G.O.P. gleaned $100,000 from a $100-a-plate Straw Hat Spectacular. And Mamie, an after-dinner treat in Silk Stockings, turned out to be the best dish of all, adding her own gossamer footnote to history. "My dressing room was very girly-girly," she reported later. "We didn't talk much. I thought he was a little flushed when he came in. Then I told him I was a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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