Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quigley, a wealthy Republican whose specialty is politics, is a frequent guest on the Merv Griffin show. She has been practicing astrology since the 1960s...
...Harvard students, we can start this battle at home. College students have historically been at the forefront of America's battles against racism. Black colleges in the South were centers of early civil rights activism--Jesse Jackson got his start at North Carolina A&T. During the 1960s, students pointed out that universities represent the values of our culture. By changing the university, we can begin to change the rest of the world. This lesson rings true today, when we needn't look farther than the white face of virtually every single faculty member at this College to see racism...
...generations of Russians, books have been surrounded by exaltation and tragedy. In a prison camp in the Gulag during the 1960s, the poet and essayist Andrei Sinyavsky hid hand-copied pages of the Book of Revelations in the calf of his boot. He wrote, "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell waiting for you in the house when you return to it after half a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books...
Basically, what GE did was to painstakingly refine its military designs into a line of passenger-jet engines. Its CF6, currently a popular engine for jumbo jets, was derived from a design initially developed in the late 1960s for the Air Force's giant C-5A cargo plane. The engine was the first to use a high- bypass technique in which a fan, working like a turbocharger in an automobile, pushes large quantities of air past the combustion core to produce much greater thrust. The CF6 turbofan (current cost: $6 million each) has broken the hold Pratt & Whitney had with...
...counter-culture image [before the 1960s] has now become theater to contemporary Harley-Davidson riders. I think that's part of what makes them so willing to be photographed," Booth says...