Search Details

Word: trailings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...message was sent to President Eisenhower in Newport: "Polaris, from out of the deep to target. Perfect." In a second message to Admiral Arleigh Burke, chief of naval operations, Red Raborn let go all the pent-up exuberation of a classic achievement: "This new star of peace hoisted a trail of missile smoke from salt water to space as a signal of a bright new addition to seapower, a new strategic use of the world's oceans which will be felt around the world and across and behind the iron and bamboo curtains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Power for Peace | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...shown his face outside the creaky old family house for 30 years and more, probably because he has "shy ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: About Life & Little Girls | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Pushing It Along. Last week's tributes were little more than Kennedy had been getting all along the campaign trail. As his bandwagon gathered headway, the press sometimes even appeared to help push it along.* One reason that Kennedy looked so good in the crucial Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries was that the Kennedy camp's shrewdly calculated pre-primary misgivings had been widely heralded in the press, adding immeasurable luster to the ultimate victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kennedy & the Press | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Elmer Gantry. Sinclair Lewis' notorious 1927 novel about a con man of religion, which is rich in the gaudy flavor of tent-show evangelism. Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur Kennedy all have the time of their lives hitting the sawdust trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

After World War II, a blight came upon the sacred mountain. First there were U.S. WACs, then a demoktirasi-style Japanese girl with knapsack and climbing boots. The beleaguered priests enlisted villagers to turn back any woman they found approaching the mountain. They rebuilt the trail to the top, making it difficult even for experienced climbers. But then came the fatal proclamation of the miko in Nara prefecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women on the Mountain | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

Previous | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | Next