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Word: swivels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of this conviction was the discovery of a distinct phase of normal sleep which is known as REM. At fairly regular intervals during the night, the electrical waves of a sleeper's brain become as active as they are during wakefulness, and his eyeballs dart and swivel in a series of rapid eye movements (REMs). During these periods of REM sleep, which typically last 20 to 30 minutes, the sleeper is most likely to dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mind: Learning Through Dreaming | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Married. Joey Heatherton, 24, nimble-limbed television performer and troop entertainer; and Lance Rentzel, 25, swivel-hipped flanker back for football's Dallas Cowboys and new co-owner of a Dallas night club; each for the first time; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 25, 1969 | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...frail young man in the grey suit, blue shirt and dark tie rocks slightly in the big leather swivel chair. Occasionally he throws a salute to his grey-faced mother Mary and two brothers, Munir and Adel. The windows of the courtroom are sealed with quarter-inch steel armor plate, and the lighting overhead accentuates his dark stubble, arching cheek bones and deep-set eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Behind Steel Doors | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Doan, a lithe man who looks a little like John Lindsay, swiveled around a bit in his swivel chair and stared squarely at the 20 college editors in their swivel chairs who were staring back...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: The World of Dow | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

...glistening fountain in the background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul: Joyful Noisemakers | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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