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Word: umbrellas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd sang and clapped for four hours, as the wind and rain swirled into a minor tornado. The temperature dropped into the low 40s but they all stayed. An old preacher pulled me under his umbrella. "You gonna freeze, be said. We linked arms and sang to keep warm. Up front a fat Negro boy in blue overalls led the chanting, bellowing and smiling into a huge red megaphone. A small boy near me started shivering. Finally a spasm of exhaustion shook through him and he fell face down in a puddle. His father picked him up and straightened...

Author: By Curtis A., | Title: The Wednesday March | 3/20/1965 | See Source »

...hundred metronomes went ticktack, ticktack during the 15-minute performance of Györgi Ligeti's composition, Poème Symphonique. A toy gun popped, a yellow umbrella flipped open, while Soloist David Tudor banged directly on the piano strings with a hammer, executing John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The movie collage Breathdeath offered a drawn foot coming out of Richard Nixon's mouth. In French Playwright Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avant-Garde: Did You Ever, Ever, Ever | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...over the party organization. In addition, all of them (except George Palmer of Schenectady) had been early supporters of Kennedy's entrance into New York politics. They had urged him to run and had worked diligently for his election. Clearly they hoped to protect their renaissance by using the umbrella of his name...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Bobby Kennedy's New York | 2/17/1965 | See Source »

...will then stage a rematch of last year's championship game when the Eagles won 6.5.Even the best umbrella leaks a little in a cloudburst. Harvard goalie BILL FITZ SIMMONS stopped 43 B.C. shots, but five...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: B.C. Fells Harvard 5-4 in Beanpot On Goal in Sudden-Death Overtime | 2/9/1965 | See Source »

...Lorelei Umbrella. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara started off in NATO's huge conference room, nicknamed the Cathedral, by once again trying to answer the basic Gaullist suspicion that the U.S. might not defend Europe. In case of an all-out war, said McNamara, the alternative of "Europe or the U.S." did not exist in Washington planning. In nuclear terms, an attack on Western Europe would be an attack on the U.S. As proof, McNamara pointed out that the U.S. has placed in NATO more than 800 ICBMs, more than 300 Polaris missiles and hundreds of bombers. The aggregate yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Off Collision Course | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

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