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Word: clashingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scorpio Rising) matches the groaning ferocity of Steppenwolf's lyrics ("Get the motor running/Shoot out on the highway/Looking for adventure/And whatever comes our way/Hey darling gonna make it happen/Take the world in a love embrace/Fire all of our guns at once and explode into space") and these disjunct moods clash to disengage the viewer. And isn't there something obscene in playing Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 was 9" while Wyatt and Billy shoot past the shacks of the Deep South's black population ("If the sun refuse to shine/I don't mind, I don't mind/If the mountains fell...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Easy Rider | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

More certain-and perhaps more mystifying-was the situation on the battlefield. Except for the clash at Ben Het, which ended last week (see THE WORLD), there was almost complete silence from the enemy, and American intelligence reported that three North Vietnamese regiments, or about 7,500 men, had been pulled back across the Demilitarized Zone into the North. At a news conference, Secretary of State William Rogers said that "we have had the lowest level of combat activity in Viet Nam for a long time, possibly the whole war." Since the severity of enemy activity has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE WAR: OUT BY NOVEMBER 1970? | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Some fans fancied the fight, which determined the heavyweight champion of six states (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas),* as a bitter white-black confrontation. But it was more a clash of styles: Quarry the classic, come-to-me counterpuncher v. Frazier the swarming, go-get-'em slugger. Beyond that, each man was hungry-ring talk for the kind of cunning and courage that are born of deprivation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing: Winner, and Still (Partial) Champ | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...apocalyptic scenes, the two confused armies clash with each other and the authorities. Guerrilla insurgencies and uncivil wars break out. No one wins and everybody loses as Japanese beat on Japanese and Americans attack Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dickens in Camp | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...full-employment society, but the next job will be to devise ways to live comfortably with it. That will not be easy. The material prosperity of the 1960s has not produced tranquillity or happiness for large sections of the nation. A full-employment economy is a delicate mechanism, the clash of powerful forces, notably labor and management. Both forces will have to accept new atti tudes, new compromises and, above all, new restraint if the U.S. is to achieve price stability while maintaining its eco nomic freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE CRITICAL FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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