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Word: ageing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering that the age of 18 is closely aligned with omnipotence, it's difficult to understand how any such forced feeding could come about. Nor is it possible to understand how any mentally alert person can believe that the substitution of one intoxicant for another is cause for respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...that all of today's radical young will slip into cantankerous conservatism. But some undoubtedly will. It may be that Robert Frost had the most sensible formula. Frost was a conservative in his youth, he said, so that he might be free to be anarchistic in his old age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: End of the Road | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the campaign was quite a change for Portugal. In selecting National Union candidates, Caetano lowered his slate's average age from 57 to 48. He promised the people better housing, schools and social security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: Shades of Salazar | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Kane and Marbury are retiring this year under an informal standing agreement that no member of the Corporation continue to serve past the age of seventy. Both will reach the age of retirement next summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bailey Will Help Find New Fellows | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

...very muggy in the Ohio Valley on summer evenings. A person either sits in his living room and swelters from the heat or sits in his air-conditioned living room and sniffles from his luxury. In either case, he is not delighted to have a college-age kid, smiling sincerely but dripping with sweat, cluttering his front porch and ringing his doorbell...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: The Almost Free Encyclopedia | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

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