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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the exception of a few minor incidents, the massive demonstrations have remained non-violent. But student leaders, who yesterday climbed atop the battered university police car to address their cohorts, warned of police attempts to break up the crowd and remove Weinberg in the wee hours of the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: California Students Stop Sit-In; University Agrees to Negotiations | 10/3/1964 | See Source »

Sometimes even the most sensible athlete seems to go a wee bit nutty. Take Ralph Boston: he figures the way to break the world's record in the broad jump is to hit himself on the head with a sponge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: All Aboard for Tokyo | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Wee Willie Keeler runs through the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...Doers," at which some 2,000 guests waited 90 minutes to hear bug-eyed Broadway Star Carol Channing belt out the official Democratic campaign song, Hello, Lyndon! Maine's delegation caucused around their motel-headquarters pool one morning, met again that night to whoop it up until the wee hours. The Texas delegation honored Governor John Connally with a Dior-and diamond-filled bash at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall, and the New Jersey host delegation gave cocktail parties on three successive afternoons in a penthouse suite overlooking the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Gay Life | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

DANCE CRAZE (Capitol) is a history seminar, with laconic directions on the jacket for twelve dances ranging from the waltz (played by Guy Lombardo) to the black bottom (Pee Wee Hunt), the calypso (Lord Flea), the tango (Nelson Riddle), and the creep (Stan Kenton). Giving instructions for the Charleston was too difficult and the jacket writer gave up, suggesting, Ask your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: : Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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