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Word: continentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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IF an earthquake were somehow to tear California off the continent and set it afloat in the sea, the island state might survive. But could the rest of the U.S.? California is virtually a nation unto itself, but it holds a strange hope, a sense of excitement-and some terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: CALIFORNIA: A State of Excitement | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Actually. Coco would have to look far for a closer think-alike. "In essence, they're similar." Lerner says. "Both women are extraordinarily independent and vulnerable and feminine. Both lead lives according to their own standards." Although she never married, Coco Chanel's celebrated affairs kept the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Very Expensive Coco | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

White cultural history may at last be moving in favor of the Indians. The new emphasis on the value of primitive societies, the growing U.S. concern over maintaining the ecological balance of the continent, the agitation of black nationalists for a separate but equal black culture in white America are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Only When I Laugh | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

The nations of the Continent have long belittled Britain for its inability to curb wildcat strikes. Last week wildcatters in the shipping and motor industries were giving British officials fits, as usual. Suddenly, however, those walkouts seemed as harmless as prolonged tea breaks compared with what was happening across the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: Wildcats on the Loose | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

At 41, Angie Brooks is a 15-year veteran of U.N. diplomacy, a skillful lawyer and Liberia's Assistant Secretary of State. In 1958, when both the President and Secretary of State were out of the country, she even filled in briefly as her nation's chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Everybody's Miss Brooks | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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