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Word: fastnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knack moves too fast to let you or the actors take it seriously. After you've gulped down the last frame, and you've stopped warmly tottering out of the theatre, you're sure of just two things: you're seen a very funny movie, and Rita Tushingham is the greatest girl ever made...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: The Knack | 7/26/1965 | See Source »

...alarm in the analysis team," James announced. The signals hinted that something was wrong with the recorder's stop mechanism. Quite possibly it was not cutting off for a 24-second interval between each picture. If so, the tape would have run through its two tracks twice as fast as it should have; it would have recorded only half of the 21 pictures. The confusion was compounded when a disembodied voice over the intercom announced: "All indications are that all was normal during the recording sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Exploration: Portrait of a Planet | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Spahn's ambition backfired with No. 360. His fastball lost its flash, his sliders hung like floaters. Just about everyone, including opposing pitchers, tore him apart. "They jump on him so fast I can't do anything," sighed Manager Casey Stengel. Spahn lost eight games straight, and other Met pitchers complained as well that he pulled rank as coach to take extra turns on the mound in his vain attempt for a victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Left Out | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...every 12.9. Moreover, Killebrew gets his homers when they are most needed. In the last inning of the recent series against the Yankees, the Twins were trailing 5-4; with two men out, one man on, and the count at 3-2, Killebrew pounded Pete Mikkelsen's fast ball 360 ft. into the leftfield stand and won the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Metamorphosis in Minnesota | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Harlow, clattering into theaters hard on the heels of Producer Bill Sargent's fast-buck Electronovision film of the same title, is the best movie to be made this year about Hollywood's legendary platinum blonde-which means simply that it is bad in a big, bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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