Word: aversion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the indictments, Yorty, 58, staunchly defended his commissioners; claimed the Times is "out to get me." Why? According to the maverick Democratic mayor, the newspaper launched a vendetta because Yorty is an unannounced Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, opposing Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. And Kuchel, avers...
"With all the hell I get," avers Lieut. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, "I have less power than most anybody else." A lot of draft-age Americans would be happier if that were so. In fact, the crusty Selective Service director in recent weeks has fought the U.S. Justice Department, the...
Republicans are uneasy as well. When it comes to taking a stand on Viet Nam in 1968, avers
An old wives' tale has it that people pass 60 they need less sleep; a standard medical textbook known all doctors as "Best and Taylor"* solemnly avers that such elders need five to seven hours. Where do the medical authorities get such information? Probably from the old wives'...
TIME'S choice of a Man of the Year seems, in retrospect, an obvious extension of our practice of singling out a man each week to put on our cover. But not until TIME was nearly five years old did it occur to the editors to proclaim a hero...