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Word: bunking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Academic freedom, we found, is so much bunk, just as "outside" freedom is so much bunk. The university, with its enormous government and business connections, is part of the whole rotten mess...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Students from New England to Berkeley Discover Their Own Universities, and Find | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

...night off New Jersey, we're sailing south to Norfolk to load on for Italy, everything is washed away by the clean sea . . . The stars are big, they rock side by side like Galileo drunk and Kepler stoned and Copernicus thinking, like Vasco da Gama in his bunk in thought, the wind, the cleanness, the dark, the quiet blue light in the bridge where hand holds wheel and course is set. The sleeping seamen below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanity of Kerouac | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...find out, three months ago he and a three-man crew piled into a rented Dodge travel bus crammed with film equipment and four bunk beds, and hit the back roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Travels with Charley | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...never been easy," he told labor leaders in Manhattan. "On the one hand is the old coalition of standpatters and naysayers. They never wanted to do any thing, but this year they say they can't do it because of Viet Nam. Well, that's pure bunk. And far off at the other end of the spectrum, there are those who say, 'What America has built is rotten. Let's tear it apart.' I say they're both wrong. I say we can meet our commitments at home and abroad-and I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Rancors Aweigh | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...Eventually, he wins over his most hostile fellow inmates by refusing to knuckle under to the sadistic guards. One day he receives a telegram that his mother has died. She is his last tenuous touch with the outside world, and under the strain, he finally cracks. Sitting on his bunk, Luke, an avowed village atheist, brokenly sings a parody of an oldtimey hymn: "I don't care if it rains or freezes/long as I got my plastic Jesus/sitting on the dashboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Prisoner of Grace | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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