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Word: vacuumed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wring our arms out of their sockets; but then he'd give us a bear hug afterwards, and we tolerated him. Mike wouldn't even think of putting a gentle twist on a man's arm; we love him, but he gets nothing." In the vacuum, such senior Democrats as Oklahoma's Robert Kerf and Virginia's Byrd now go their own way, with little regard for the Administration's wishes. And it is they who have dominated the session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Tax Troubles | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...second division into the power vacuum have soared the Minnieota Twins and the Los Angeles Angels. Brilliant front-office work has matched fine handling of the teams by managers Sam Mele and Bill Rigney, and although the Angels are showing sings of folding (a nine-game losing streak in July and drop into third place), both teams could easily score a first-division finish...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Baseball Season: One of the Greats | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

...spectacular burnouts, the shot was not a failure. The great balloon, largest though not the heaviest man-made object ever to enter space, was intended to destroy itself without going into orbit. The shot was only a test to perfect the difficult art of inflating big balloons in vacuum. A similar attempt last winter failed when the balloon burst because of too much gas pressure (TIME, Jan. 26). Last week's success means that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will soon try to put Echo II, its bigger and better radio wave reflector (passive communication satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Practice Space Show | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...merchant's son (born George Horatio Nelson, no kin to the naval hero) who won his peerage by taking over the Depression-stalled English Electric Co. Ltd. in 1933, building it into a giant combine (assets: $250 million) producing everything from the Canberra jet bomber to the smallest vacuum tubes; in Stafford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...Dickens . . . He's Fenster), and Stanley Holloway as a British butler on the staff of an American family (Our Man Higgins). The producers of The Flintstones have a new family called The Jetsons, who live one century in the future. Mrs. Jetson has a high-IQ vacuum cleaner that can see, think and maneuver on its own. It dumps its load under the carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Coming Season | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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