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Word: contentively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasantry, today's ballads can in the same way explore "the wells of mystery bricked over" in our consciousness, Lewis said. He noted America's revival of folk music, and the popularity of comic strips and tabloid newspapers, both of which are similar to ballads in technique and content...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lewis Discusses Modern Ballads | 11/5/1964 | See Source »

...content as well as color, Johnson's campaign has been superior to Goldwater's. Johnson seems to love holding press conferences, and a great many stories always come out of Presidential press conferences. (Stories would come out of Goldwater conferences, too, if he would hold more, as the response to his unofficial brieing Saturday indicated...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Is 'Fairness' Fair? | 11/2/1964 | See Source »

...species, however, did not come through so well. The coconut crab, once a delicacy of the atolls, is now inedible because it has retained such a high level of strontium 90. The reason is that when the crab molts, it eats its old shell for the mineral content and so reabsorbs its radioactivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Life Survive The Bomb? | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...type, drier, and Organization Man politician about him. He somehow projects more of a lean and hungry look and radiates less warmth than did the old guard politicians. He has less flair for the theatrical. He seems to take himself more seriously than they ever would. They were content to build little kingdoms for themselves and rule benevolently. But whatever Bellotti attains, one suspects he will still want to better himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Bellotti and Old Style Politicking | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Dream of Joseph: When tricks or ploys fail to win recognition, the Jacob complex goes underground. Another breed of undergraduate learns to content himself with imagined glories. The young Joseph, twelfth man in a line of brothers, dreams that the bound sheaves of his brothers stood round and made obeisance to his sheaf in the field...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Recent Biblical Reinterpretation Reveals Roots of Harvard Malaise | 10/27/1964 | See Source »

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