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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET CHARITY. A lot of energy obviously went into this adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, but the result is sadly lacking in vitality. Shirley MacLaine is fun to watch though, and a couple of the tunes are catchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...next thing you know, honey, the whole city is behind Spreen. He delivers some pretty corny slogans, such as "Robins be welcome, robbers beware," but they eat it up here. Actually, the crime rate went up the first two months of this year. Seems it was a pretty mild winter in Detroit, and Spreen says the reason for the crime rise was that he didn't have his three best patrolmen working for him. He calls them "Snow, Rain and Cold." Ho, ho! Well, just as this whole thing is getting off the ground, Spreen starts another drive, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Detroit, with Love | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Brutish British. Anguilla was ready: a flotilla of lobster smacks, so one story went, would wake the island by blowing horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: BRITAIN'S BAY OF PIGLETS | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Brown's reaction to Harvard went unrecorded, but latest reports indicate he will probably attend if accepted...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Coach Harrison Engaged In Busy Recruiting Drive | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...decided to see the world, which for him, was the United States. He went as far west as Fargo, N. Dak., and held a variety of jobs including pitching hay and thrashing wheat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jack Fadden, Training Room's Freud, Keeps Harvard's Jocks In One Piece | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

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