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Word: contentively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VENEZUELA, the oil-fueled economy continues to grow stronger, but President Raúl Leoni's soldiers are having trouble with the Castroite FALN guerrillas, who have now spread into eight of the country's 20 states. Last year the Castroites were content to play hide-and-seek with the army. Now they are growing bolder, recently ambushed an army patrol near the Maracaibo oilfields, killing three soldiers and wounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nations: Warning Signals | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...with 329 comes the Great Leap Forward (well, it is, at least, a hop; and the direction is distinctly ahead). Confronted with the perennial dilemma-cover many things superficially, or fewer things well-cover editors have opted for selective excellence. Unfortunately the standard is still elusive; execution and content are only occasionally memorable. But the general change in format, the attempt to write longer, more thoughtful, more critical essays on selected topics is, without doubt, an important and much-needed innovation...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: 329 | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...part, unions insist that there are seldom enough qualified Negro applicants for jobs-and in any case, liberal-minded clergy find it easier to condemn discrimination by employers rather than by unions. Dr. Gayraud Wilmore, director of the United Presbyterian Religion and Race Commission, admits that many churches are content to accept a letter from a corporation official, and do little in the way of following up their contractual demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Financing Fair Employment | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...present administrative structure (which) seems inadequate to the task of providing a major, required program of Harvard College." The second was the limited number and depth of course offerings which "have been too inflexible to take account of various levels of student preparation." The third was that "the content of the present program is so organized that it either underemphasizes or omits some of the most vigorous areas of modern thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Birthday Cake for the Doty Report | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

Bundie was thrown backwards by both the force and content of the Chief's last remark. He knew about the Mallinckrodt murder that morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biff Bundie, University Cop: The Circle of Seven | 5/19/1965 | See Source »

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