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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down Commonwealth Avenue a crowd of 100,000 converged on the Boston Common. They were mostly students, but mothers from Newton and Wellesley walked among them, their children wearing black M-day armbands or clutching helium-filled black balloons. From a bar, a man hollered: "Bums! Do they think of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KALEIDOSCOPE OF DISSENT | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Early Wednesday morning, Pat packed her children off to school and boarded the train to Mundelein, a Catholic girls' school run by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She entered Coffey Hall, picked up a black crape armband and some pamphlets in the lobby and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Patricia Wall's Enlistment | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

THERE were no Vietnamese demonstrations in South Viet Nam last week to coincide with Moratorium Day, U.S.A. If there had been, though, a surprising number of Vietnamese might have joined in, not simply to join in expressing their weariness with the war but also to hurry all those Americans out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: RISING RESENTMENT OF THE U.S. | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

Members of the French-educated elite, including civil servants and many intellectuals, criticize the U.S. from a somewhat loftier level. They accuse the Americans of practicing a kind of cultural defoliation in Viet Nam. "We consider your country too young, and there is not much we can learn from you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: RISING RESENTMENT OF THE U.S. | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

When the 100th crash occurred last week, however, there was hardly a murmur in the German press. The reason is that the crash rate in Germany is down to 10.8 per 100,000 flying hours.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Learning to Handle The Flying Coffin | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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