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Word: yonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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OKAY MRS. DAVIS, now you just sit back and relax you've done it all just right. Now we're climbing up there into the blue yonder-can't let those bombs go just now, see, they'll melt us out of the sky. Now soon we'll be over the target. Okay now you'll see. Just pull back that lever. Uh huh. A little more...

Author: By Robin V. B. davis, | Title: Children Before Harvard-What? An Afternoon Narrative of a high-flyer | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

...prevent plane piracy without increasing the already considerable danger to all on board. In any case, putting marshals aboard the hundreds of flights daily that might be skyjacked would be prohibitively costly. The wildest potential remedies include a trap door that would drop the skyjacker into the blue yonder at the push of a button, or hidden circuits that would stun him with an electric shock. But a passenger or stewardess could be inadvertently zapped as readily as the culprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT SKYJACKING? | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...podium flashed a signal to the 50-piece Lou Breese orchestra to strike up some noisy numbers to drown out the chants. In this case, with stunning inappropriateness after a debate on bombing, it was the Air Force's song, Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder. The band ripped into Happy Days Are Here Again in the midst of a somber passage on Viet Nam during Humphrey's acceptance speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MAN WHO WOULD RECAPTURE YOUTH | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...come to appreciate the Boom-Boom's husky, 150 per cent voice, the kind that anyone can imitate if he doesn't mind being hoarse the rest of the day. Cannon's best song, Palisades Park, is extra-auteur; he owes his place to the "whoooo" of Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Talla-hassie Lassie, and Transistor Sister...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Stylists, Materialists, And A Hierarchy Of Rock | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

...Look up yonder...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Country Joe And The Fish | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

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