Word: 1960s
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...Shanghai Stock Exchange. After she fled her homeland, she served as business manager in TIME's Hong Kong and Tokyo bureaus. Watt arrived at the magazine's New York City office in 1956, became an American citizen and continued rising through the business-side ranks. By the late 1960s she had consolidated her hold on our spending habits and our hearts...
Harvard's 38-13 advantage does not capture the closeness--often the bitter closeness--of some of the matches. Harvard has been a national contender since 1922, its first year of play. Princeton joined the ranks of elite squash teams in the early 1960s...
Those are not the words of Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder, the football speculator cashiered by CBS Sports for enunciating a virtually identical sentiment in a Martin Luther King Day interview. Rather they were spoken by black Olympic Gold Medalist Lee Evans, a militant protester against white racism during the 1960s. Evans was quoted in a 1971 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article on the purported physiological differences between blacks and whites. In that story, among many other things, experts claimed that what Coach Al Campanis more recently declared was true: blacks are less buoyant. If there are significant genetic differences between blacks...
Primeval galaxies resembling the objects Elston found have been postulated by astronomers since the late 1960s. Most scientists regard the fact that he stumbled over the reddish sources of light within a randomly chosen tiny section of sky as evidence that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness...
...nerves in Am'ari, Jabalia and the other camps and towns of the West Bank and Gaza has been going on since 1967, when Israel seized control of the territories after winning the Six-Day War. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Israeli troops waged a ferocious struggle with the P.L.O., whose Kalashnikov-toting fighters killed scores of soldiers and civilians in the occupied territories. The Israelis eventually wiped out the P.L.O. threat in the West Bank and Gaza, helped in large part by King Hussein's successful 1970 campaign to drive the P.L.O. forces out of Jordan...