Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widespread restiveness on the part of many young West Germans over the division of the country. Since Bonn's old method of trying to isolate East Germany has not brought unification any nearer, many West Germans want to try some other way of pulling the two halves closer together...
...black community, in its efforts to get into the white mainstream, has never asked for enough." Harding responds, "On black campuses the questions are more fundamental.... The demand is to change the university in every way, in every area. The demands of black students on southern campuses are closer to those made by white radicals on northern campuses." The SDS's relationship to black students is dealt with, as well as that of the hippie contingent...
...designer, thinks that a woman actually has more sex appeal in trousers than in a dress. "Ripping off a woman's pants is sexier than ripping off a dress," he says. (And harder, it might be added.) But Sociologist-Author Charles Winick (The New People) probably comes closer to reflecting the majority masculine view. "Pants," he points out, "make extemporaneous sex more difficult." To say nothing about the fact that they also defeminize a shapely pair of legs...
SOON I was clearly in Boston, the calf getting worse and my grimaces thrilling bystanders. Then some guy finally said, "Last mile." It was a lie, of course, but the race was undeniably nearing completion. The Prudential came closer and closer. Estimates by the crowd of distance remaining was all contradictory and more a handicap than a help. But they meant well...
...fringe stand the odd-balls and yahoos, some of whom never get closer to a book than a bet but ready to light the fuses...