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Word: yucca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polish Bison Brand Vodka [Oct. 14]? A Bog-Fog? Better a Yucca-Flats. Merely have at hand four quarts of vodka, 15 3-oz. bottles of maraschino cherries, ten mashed oranges, lemons and limes-plus rinds, 1 lb. of cane sugar, 10 lbs. of ice cubes, and proceed to dump the whole mess into a wastebasket. Stirring recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn at the marketplace. Then she set up a booth to resell them at a half or a third of the price, telling everyone, "This is how much it will cost after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: A Threat of Daggers | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...named Ray ("Pinochle") Miller. When captured by Mexican bandits who decided "to 'dobe-wall him," he shot the firing squad with a camera before it could shoot him with bullets. Flattered and fascinated, the bandits began posing for photographs and drinking straight shots of sotol, a distillation of yucca that makes tequila seem like celery tonic. When they were suitably swacked, Sergeant Miller took a flying leap to the nearest horse and "hit the Rio Grande so hard he knocked it dry for 50 feet." He left his camera behind. No matter. No film in it, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Texas Devils | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...John A. Bendall, 52, a general practitioner, who started a similar landing-strip community at Yucca Valley, Calif., in 1956, now has nine neighbors who own their own planes and patients scattered over hundreds of miles who fly their own planes in to see him. "It's a wonderful place-and way -to live," says Real Estate Man Jules Boldizsar, who has a house on Bendall's Yucca strip. "A couple of weeks ago, 24 of us-in separate planes, of course -flew to Las Vegas for the weekend and had a grand time. Last summer my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exurbia: One Foot in the Air | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...area threatened to postpone the shot. Then the wind faded and the device was detonated. Standing on a mountain-top 57 miles away, observers could not hear the explosion. But they saw its effect perfectly: a great mass composed of thousands of tons of granite boulders, sand, clay, yucca trees, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and even stray kangaroo rats, rabbits and rattlesnakes was hurled 7,000 ft. into the sky. It seemed to hesitate, then crashed to the earth in a cloud of dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: Instant Crater | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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