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Word: turned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TURN-ON (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A computer hosts and Tim Conway guest stars in the premiere of a new series that promises to be "a visual-comedic assault on the people who watch it." Whether it also gets charged for battery remains to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books, Fiction, Nonfiction: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...Kenneth J. Yolla, in his letter to TIME, complains that the spiral notebook causes pain and grief to left-handed students [Jan. 24]. The last page of a right-handed spiral notebook will become the first page of a left-handed notebook if Reader Yolla has the wit to turn the notebook over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...solemnity of the East Room of the White House and Richard Nixon's first press conference as President-the throwaway line was bound to elicit laughter. One of the first things he had done to cut down on crime in the capital, deadpanned the President, was to turn on the White House lights that Lyndon Johnson had turned off five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon's New-Found Humor | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...last of the miners had left by the turn of the century, and it was not until four years ago that a new band of prospectors returned to Mineral King. Financed by the late Walt Disney, they systematically surveyed the Sierra woodland-now a part of a national forest. Finally they suggested that Mineral King's real riches could be realized in 20th century America as a year-round vacation resort. It sounded at first like a sterling idea to almost everyone concerned. Last week, however, when the Disney group's plans were given final approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Guard and Preserve? Or Open and Enjoy? | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...demands of African and Asian "young churches." One action approved in Tulsa last week was the creation of a 16-man committee, led by Methodist Bishop James K. Mathews of Boston, to study ways of reorganizing the council itself. Among the proposals the group will consider is whether to turn over some of the Geneva secretariat's functions to regional or national offices. Other decisions taken were to send Blake on a peace mission to the Middle East and to hold meetings later this year on how the church can do more to fight racism, poverty and disease around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Council: Confrontation in Tulsa | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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