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Word: aproned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen so much I seldom encounter a surprise; however, I am most near death when I begin believing I've seen it all. So I continuously doubt the future. My faith is behind me, not out in front. I am not drawn ahead by the apron strings of heaven; I am pushing at crashing speeds into the unknowns. I've made no contract with God; his promises and threats do not interest or frighten me. My power is in me, in all of us. Life is this power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Concern on the Campus | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Greasy-haired teeny-boppers (usually busy throwing eggs at peace-marchers) had taken off their boots and grown a beard for the occasion. Women with flowers tempted full grown children with an apron stuffed with candies...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Be-in and Nothingness | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

...year-old mop man wears new Texas Wranglers beneath a soiled white apron, and the cook's slick black hair doesn't quite hide his bald spot. Blitman orders a Fried Egg Special. Two eggs over, hashed browns, one tough English muffin, a packet of marmalade, and regular coffee. Fifty-five cents. Joe Blitman has done Harvard on five dollars a day. The mop man sneezes into his shirt sleeve...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Harvard on $5 a Day | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...about 2 a.m. tomorrow, Mrs. Theresa Caufield will bag one final knackwurst, hang up her apron and walk out of Hazen's Restaurant for the last time. The waitress who has been a Harvard institution for two decades has quit...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hazen's Theresa Tosses in the Apron | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...Apron-String Homilies. Ed Brooke's ancestry, like that of many other American Negroes, is lost in the eugenic mists of miscegenation between the Negro mistress-servant and the 18th century Southern squirearchy. The Senator believes that his paternal great-grandfather was probably a slave who took his surname from plantation owners in Virginia. Brooke's father doggedly worked his way through the Howard University School of Law, was employed for years as a Veterans Administration attorney in Washington. His mother Helen was the driving force in the upbringing of Eddie and his older sister Helene. At public gatherings, Brooke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Senate: An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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