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Word: doubting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas J. Kent Jr., a Berkeley planner, says that "the radical experiment that began in the U.S. 50 years ago in local self-government has run out in the biggest cities." No doubt with some exaggeration, he holds that all cities with populations of a million or more are "too large to be manageable as democratic self-governments." A somewhat similar theme was sounded by Leonardo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...well be right as far as the A.I.A. plan, specifically, is concerned. But there is no doubt about the motoring public's desire for some sort of radical overhaul of the existing system. If nothing else, the new A.I.A. plan provides welcome evidence that the auto-insurance industry itself is at last trying to come up with some answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: Trying for Answers | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...reflections of a liberal generation that worked for change and revolution only to find the results horrifying. We were caught, one character observes, "between the Puritan and the pornographer." Calculated to attract the young, the book will most touch the middleaged. Better read than talked about, it will no doubt be more talked about than read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Folks at Home | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...that it's impossible to get the feeling that the vote you cast made a difference. The only gratification you can get is in having voted for the winner, in which case you feel good for having spotted the "best" candidate back when the result was still in doubt...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Scheme | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

...rugby you always give your opponent the benefit of the doubt," says one Harvard player." "He's often quite involved in the game, and sometimes doesn't realize that he has hit you illegally. At any rate, if it's a flagrant enough violation the referee is bound...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Rugby at Harvard | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

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