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Word: surely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smell of Death. To be sure, Betio has become the Broadway of Tarawa. A dance hall teems with devotees of the newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anniversaries: An All but Forgotten Name | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Brandeis is pretty much an unknown club. Coached by K.C. Jones, the one-time Celtic great, the Judges are sure to run a lot and play a pressing defense. They have a 6-11 center who developed fast enough last season to spark them to victories in nine of their last 12 games...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: New Hardcourt Coach Bob Harrison Building a Racehorse-Quick Squad | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

...Listen, would you please check and make sure I didn't send you the tax? I couldn't find the cancelled check, but I was certain I'd sent it." (Christ. Evidently the amount of the excise was added to your bill every time they sent you a notice...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Getting Excised | 11/25/1968 | See Source »

...fear is moving across the courtroom now in waves. I am very scared that I will never get out. I look across the aisle at the Harvard people who surely will not get out, and I am certain they are very brave. Then the bailiff says, "Michael Glass to the stand please." And I am frightened to death. At that instance I am sure he has called me to the stand. Wasn't that my name? Then someone else walks up, but I am not reassured because I am certain that I am next. I look across the aisle...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: A Day in Court | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

...hatreds, even hatreds for the law, come right to the surface. His bailiffs used vicious obscenities several times when talking to the black welfare mothers. This goes on in the Municipal Court, Room 404, for it is Adlow's court. It is run by him this way; he is sure this is the way it must be run. His eyes are old and they know very much; they know more than mine, have mine thoroughly whipped (I tried to stare at him for a time but could not). My eyes are frightened, flit around the room, unable to gather...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: A Day in Court | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

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