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Word: voodoos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President watched eight 6-52 crews run to their planes and get into the air in 7 min. 34 sec. After Kennedy sounded a Klaxon, five Voodoo crews were airborne in 2 min. 24 sec. The President saw F-104s hit target rockets with Sidewinder missiles, laughed as an ancient C-47, all souped up with JATO rockets, shot into the sky like a jet. He inspected a line of 33 different aircraft, from the X-15 to the B-52, ducked inside a security hangar for a look at supersecret weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Operation Silk Hat | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Saloon, lithe and limber Jamaican and Ghanaian girls nightly instruct votaries in a ritualistic, undulating "voodoo twist." Months after it began spraining sacroiliacs in the U.S., Britain and France, the twist has seized Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Der Liszt Tvist | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...shouted. "Now you will see how your priests die," and opened fire with their tommy guns. "Pray for us!" cried the priests before they died. This was not the end; when all were dead, the savage troops grabbed knives and dismembered the bodies, gouging out the eyes and carving voodoo symbols on the corpses as well. When it was finally over, the students were forced to dump the remains in the nearby river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: The Wild Ones | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...country cultivable, but the Point Four program has failed here because it has substituted symbolic gestures for real aid. Unfortunately, a birth control program, although one of the most effective kinds of aid must, temporarily, be left to the Roman Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, and the Voodoo leaders of the interior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alliance for What? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

There are also instructions on how to make a Voodoo Dolly Pincushion and what to do with I-is-for-Ink: "Ink is black and wet. Ink is fun. What can you do with ink? What rhymes with ink? D R -." There is a friendly hint about brushing the teeth: "If you do not brush your teeth, they will get dull and yellow. If you brush them, they will be nice and white and bright. Maybe a wild black panther will crawl in your window some dark night and look around for someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kid Stuff | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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