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Word: tab (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tab-in-the-Box. Cowed by such a campaign, the FCC felt that all it could do was authorize a few experimental fee-vee operations. And none was on a large enough scale to test either the hopes or the fears of the contending interests. A pilot system was franchised in Denver but never got on the air. A Bartlesville, Okla., project lasted nine months. Other projects were quickly aborted in New York City and Chicago. Fee-vee's most promising and disheartening trial came in Los Angeles. Just as the operation seemed to be catching on, the broadcasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Payday, Some Day | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...interior," while her husband is the "foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known to tie her husband's hair to a bedpost while he is sleeping, then wake him up and beat him until her wishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Women | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Originally a hobby, the network has grown far beyond Roth's expectations. The shower from space has increased, and, with United picking up the tab, Roth has stepped up his activities. He now publishes advance word of the time and place of satellite re-entries in a weekly bulletin that goes out to 118 airlines in the U.S. and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Tip on Re-entry | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...year, the Jazzmobile features first-rate jazzmen (Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson), sometimes attracts 3,000 listeners at a time. It is an independent offshoot of the Harlem Cultural Council, and private firms, such as Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., pay most of the tab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Taking to the Streets | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Life-insurance salesmen are generally of as generous (they always pick up the tab when they are trying to sell something), compassionate (no one would weep more bitterly should a client die) and patient to a fault (they never take no for an answer). Yet recent events suggest that beneath those Jekyll-like exteriors lie rather tough Hydes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Your Insurance Salesman | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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