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Word: stuporously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrested while wearing a new coat, the price tag still dangling from his sleeve. A Negro woman lay down on the sidewalk and muttered through her drunken stupor: "They walk all over me in Greenville, South Carolina, and they might as well run over me here." An onlooker cried: "Did you see that? They shot that woman down in cold blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: When Night Falls | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...away. Neither one has conquered; but whether this means that the aristocracy and lower classes will never mix or that class will always tell or that deep down Susan is frigid is ony another frustrating imponderable. All that is left is what we already knew: Tony sagging in a stupor, his face framed in the bars of a bannister...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman, | Title: The Servant | 4/15/1964 | See Source »

...goes, until Quiquendonians, unaccountably infected with this un quenchable need for activity, decide to declare war on a neighboring village for an offense committed 500 years earlier. The gasworks blows up just in time, and Quiquendone relapses harmlessly into its familiar stupor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiff & Pouf | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...tiny vessels around the eyes, and blood in the urine. After about a week, many of the victims turned as cold as a morgue slab before they died. Survivors presented a pitiable sight for weeks, with bleeding gums and persistent tremor, and often in a state of delirium or stupor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Casualties in a Jungle War | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...light and sound. There he is stuffed into a rubber diving suit and submerged in a tank of water warmed to body heat. His external sensations disappear, and as the hours go by he passes through six successive stages of sensory deprivation: irritation, melancholia, hallucination, panic, disorientation and stupor. When his assistants finally haul him out of the tank, Bogarde is more like a jellyfish than a human being, a mindless blob who will do anything anybody tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blob Psychology | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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