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Word: tailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National States Rights Party, a Georgia-based brigade of bigots (see box following page). "There is nothing lower than blacks and Jews unless it's the police who protect them," Cowan had noted in a book found among his weapons last week. Once he kicked to death a tail-wagging black Labrador puppy because its color offended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Season of Savagery and Rage | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...space-shuttle orbiter Enterprise soared off a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, while locked tenaciously atop a huge and expensively modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The combined load of 293 tons (72 of them in the 122-ft.-long Enterprise] not only rose smoothly ("No tail shake at all," reported 747 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton Jr.) but maneuvered as gracefully as two such ponderous mating birds could. The vital 2-hr. 5-min. test was declared a complete success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Maiden Flight of the Mated Birds | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...suppose there is an uncanny resemblance," says Actor Peter Boyle about his lookalike, the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Boyle, 40, stars as the Red-baiting chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in NBC's Feb. 6 movie, Tail Gunner Joe. The film, which also features Burgess Meredith as Lawyer Joseph Welch, Patricia Neal as Senator Margaret Chase Smith and George Wyner as Roy Cohn, spans McCarthy's life from his teen-age years to his death in 1957. The title comes from a bizarre publicity stunt staged during his World War II Marine days. To look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless and without a tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nose Out of Joint | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Died. Marion Rombauer Becker, 74, co-author (with her late mother Irma Rombauer) of Joy of Cooking, America's bible of the kitchen; of cancer; in Cincinnati. Twelve editions of Joy have guided millions of cooks in such divergent intricacies as skinning a beaver tail and creating a successful souffle since the work was first published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1977 | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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