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Word: whinings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bowl filled, it dipped down until, with a splash, it dumped 26 gallons of water back into the bay. Empty, the lightened bowl swung up again, and a brass "sound cone," hanging off the other end of the 15-foot-long arm, began broadcasting a high-pitched whine. "Banzai!" cheered the workmen. "O.K. It will be O.K.," said the contraption's creator, Susumi Shingu, who expresses his love of the wind and the water in such lighthearted abstract mobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Dancing in the Wind | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...control--on 'Out in the Street' one of the Who's earliest recordings there is a flickering gash of feedback that jars the listener into total awareness, on 'Call Me Lightning' there is a brief sputter of amplified plucking and then the sound switches into the full-fledged majestic whine of electric lead guitar and you get what it means to integrate Noise and Music...

Author: By Sal I. Imam, | Title: The Who | 8/13/1968 | See Source »

...whose wife went to the angels before her time, and With Pen in Hand (scribbled by Goldsboro himself), an equally lachrymose ballad about a husband whose wife is throwing him out of the house before he's ready to split. Goldsboro fans love such treacle; judging by his whine, so does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Invisible and Inaudible. The B-52s wheel in from bases in Thailand, on Guam, Okinawa and Taiwan to dump their huge loads. They fly so high that they are virtually invisible, and their bombs detonate on the ground only seconds after the faint whine of their engines is audible-and by then it is too late. They concentrate on areas of Communist pressure-as last week in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, where waves of B-52s attempted to break down Communist troop buildups. For a pilot's view of a raid, Robert Wildau of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Thirty Tons from 30,000 Feet | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...multicolored flower beds. On the capital's broad boulevards, road crews shoveled steaming asphalt into the gaps where paving stones had been pried up to build barricades. Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks. Trains and subways rumbled once more; the whine of jetliners echoed again at the airports. By the millions, French workers trooped back to their factories. Though there were still some pockets of holdouts, notably the university students and the strikers at the state-owned radio and television stations and the Renault auto plants, France last week was returning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: And Now A Third Solution | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

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