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Word: scissors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaped. A fleet-footed fellow, he accomplished several laps around the chamber floor before being collared. Despite impressive arguments by a state senator who favored the horned toad, Crotaphytus collaris will share honors with mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens), the state flower; the redbud (Cercis canadensis), the state tree; and the scissor-tailed flycatcher (Muscivora forficatd), the state's official bird. State officials of Alabama, which has long been nicknamed the Lizard State, refrained from comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oklahoma: The Sooner Boomer | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...likeness on a wire frame with papier-mâché made of old newspapers soaked in paste. He followed the same process for all four. The figures are life-sized head-and-torso, with paper-and-glue eyeballs inserted from the rear of the framework, hair made of scissor-fringed strips of the London Daily Mail, and a final facial of thin paste and watercolor. Each unclad figure took two days to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 22, 1967 | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Though she has played infrequently in the U.S., Lili Kraus has been a celebrated soloist in Europe for more than 30 years. Daughter of an impoverished scissor sharpener, she was born in Budapest, became a prodigy at six, taught adult students at eight, became a full-fledged soloist at 20. In 1940, while on a concert tour of Java, she was stranded by the war and eventually placed in a Japanese forced-labor camp. Denied access to a piano for most of the three years of her imprisonment, she "continued to play organically," deciding that "either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: View from the Inside | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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