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Word: dictes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pill-oriented, medicated society" is partially responsible for the increase in drug abuse, Dr. Farnsworth said. "It is not unusual for people to take as many as six mind altering drugs in one day," he said. "They begin with caffeine, go through nicotine, dict pills, tranquilizers, alcohol, and finish with sleeping pills...

Author: By Marion E. Mccollom, | Title: Dr. Farnsworth Claims Drugs 'Contract Minds' | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

This absurdity served its cathartic purpose, but Cox sees that it is time to put the therapy to bed. Man just isn't made to face ultimate absurdity-paradox, yes. Absurdity? Not as a steady dict anyway. The Holy is meta-historical. Existentialism, for all its benefits, has no time for dreams, no visionary capacity, and therefore no stomach for celebration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Shelf The Feast of Fools | 11/18/1969 | See Source »

Last week, after more than eight hours' deliberation, the jury of eight men and four women reached its ver dict. Gertrude Baniszewski was convicted of first-degree murder; although the prosecution demanded the death penalty, the jury showed mercy and she was given a life sentence. Paula was found guilty of second-degree murder, which in Indiana carries a mandatory life term. John Baniszewski, Hubbard and Hobbs were convicted of man slaughter, and will each serve from two to 21 years in prison. Still awaiting trial is Stephanie, who, alone of her cruel clan, told the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Avenging Sylvia | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard friend showed us a few samples of Macrobiotic prose, a book called Transmutations Naturelles by Louis Kervran, a professor at the University of Paris, and The Philosophy of Oriental Medicine, by George Ohsawa, the founder of the Dict. We noticed a passage in Ohsawa's book...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: Yin Crowd Gets High on Brown Rice | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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