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Word: attainability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author pick his characters out of phone books, turn plot construction over to his subconscious, then write an entire novel in eight days and hope to attain a respected literary reputation? (See THE WORLD, "A Happy 200th to Simenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...Claridge's. Though Nixon and Wilson had met before, this was their first get-together as President and Prime Minister, and the two got on very well. They are similar in many ways: both are rather homely in looks and style, solid and well-disciplined men, who attain and exercise power by organization and tenacity rather than brilliance or charisma. "The personal chemistry is working," said one participant in the Nixon-Wilson meetings. Nixon pleased his British hosts with several references to the historic "special relationship" between the two countries. The British like to hear that the U.S. still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON IN EUROPE: RENEWING OLD ACQUAINTANCES | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...F.D.R.'s Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace, speaking of critics who thought that pigs should not be killed until full-grown, remarked: "They contended that every little pig has the right to attain before slaughter the full piggishness of his pigness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: The Farmer's Dutch Uncle | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...members tried to get into the hall either at the meeting's start or after an adverse vote on ROTC, they would probably either fail or have to use violence to attain their goal...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: SDS Plans Sit-in at Faculty Meeting | 12/11/1968 | See Source »

...impart a good deal of mollusk lore and cold facts under the impressive heading of malacology before getting down to the glories of this volume-82 color plates of some of the world's rarest shells. Polished, arranged, color coordinated and lighted to studio perfection, these examples attain a beauty they never possessed when their original owners were in residence. In vivo, mollusks are apt to be encrusted with organisms and covered with silty residues. Presumably, after "five hundred million years of inspired design," they get a little careless about surface appearances. Fortunately, man, the beholder, is still quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Christmas Shelf: Bigness and Beauty | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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