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Word: straying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time Bob Hope, 59, is on location as a Bob-nosed U.N. employee with a stray baby on his hands. Wouldn't it be great, hoped Hope, if U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 63, could be persuaded to do a quick walk-on? "I don't know if I'm dressed properly," laughed Stevenson, but soon he was outside mugging through a long double take as he passed Hope in the plaza. After two takes, Stevenson had the bit clown so pat that the camera crew burst into applause. "Hey," called the upstaged comic, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1963 | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...evidently aided a small fire which had been started in the mattress, probably by a stray cigarette. Miss Schumann and her roommate, Margaret Pfeffer, alerted their proctor who then called the Cambridge fire department. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mattress Fire Puts Two Students From Room During Night | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

...democracy in elections this June 23. And through it all, Argentina's 20 million citizens, inured to chaos and bored with it, went about their business, window-shopping in thronged Calle Florida, horseback riding in Palermo Park, or sitting in coffeehouses, hoping not to get hit by the stray bullets zinging around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: War & Peace | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Wilson has challenged the traditional female domination of the Never-Novel, a literary form so named because 1) it must never stray beyond the boundaries of its papier-mché and plaster never-never land, and 2) it must never, never surprise the reader with anything novel. Never-Novelist Wilson qualifies neatly on both points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Flannel Mortarboard | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...PAPER SHREDDER. A new office paper shredder not much bigger than a typewriter comes from Michael Lith Sales Corp. of Manhattan. The Destroyit Super-Speed can digest 500 Ibs. of confidential letters, microfilm, ledger sheets, contracts, blueprints in an hour, is not upset by stray paper clips or staples. It can handle sheets as wide as a newspaper, produces shreds in three widths-depending on the model-which it neatly spews into disposable plastic bags. For businesses where disposal of confidential or secret material is essential, Destroyit does the job on the spot. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: Build Small | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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