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Word: virginity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottle was thrust in me. I screamed and lost consciousness for, I think, two days . . ." Wrote Novelist Franchise Sagan, one of the many French intellectuals who have rallied behind the cause of Djamila: "There will be impartial gynecologists [at the trial] who will say what results are when a virgin is impaled on a bottle." Three doctors examined Djamila two months after she was interrogated. confirmed that she still carried the marks of "brutalities." During the interrogation, Djamila signed a "confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Trial | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...Virgin Islands (4): For Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HOW THE DEMOCRATS STAND | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Back with a Thud | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...activity came from U.S. A-bomb tests in the Pacific about six months before. To make sure, he needed rain water from just after the A-bomb tests-and that meant getting some that could be certified as almost six months old. A Navy commander recalled that in the Virgin Islands most drinking water is in fact rain water collected in cisterns, and that the natives know almost precisely when it fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Memory of Rainbarrel | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

Unofficial Watch. Peter King sent an assistant on a rush trip to the Virgin Islands; soon the aide was back with jugs of sludge precipitated chemically from 2,500 gal. of six-month-old rain water. The stuff was faintly hot, containing the radioactive cerium and yttrium that are typical products of nuclear fission. As of then, King knew he had a quick and easy way to detect nuclear explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Memory of Rainbarrel | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

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