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Word: banishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peril venture forth. O, to be depourvu, bereft, and rid of that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Job | 2/24/1962 | See Source »

...President Kennedy endorsing milk [Feb. 2]-modern research has established conclusively that milk, when taken internally by adults, is lethal. The only way it can be safely ingested and endured is mixed with a strong dose of brandy, a little sugar and nutmeg. Warming the milk first helps banish the taste and dim the memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1962 | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...unique, $200,000 school, rural Carson City has gone far beyond the new notion of movable walls to banish "egg crate" classrooms. In Carson City, there are no walls. The school consists of five grades in two cavernous "clusters," each measuring the size of four conventional classrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One-Room Schoolhouse | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...that word reactionary in a nonpejorative sense, I realize that it may irritate supporters of Senator Goldwater; and I would therefore suggest respectfully that he henceforth be known as a "restorationist." In any case, to cede him all rights to the proud citadel of conservatism is to banish Dwight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1961 | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Cheers for Britain's Foreign Minister, Lord Home! Even an average housewife, with an average husband, average children, and living in an average neighborhood, cannot help but recognize that one cannot banish evil by refusing to know it's there. Keeping Red China out of the U.N. only tends to increase their resentment and stall any progress toward disarmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1961 | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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