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Word: drinkingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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They make a very odd trio, indeed. Lot is impotent, a transvestite, and facing imminent death from TB. Myrtle is a sometime prostitute, and Chicken is a cut below Neanderthal man. A flood is in the offing, and Chicken gets his nickname from the fact that in a previous flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Seven Descents of Myrtle | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

Potted to Pot. The PMC cadets still rise to reveille at 0700, freeze to attention any time an upperclassman barges into their room. They live in fear of humorless student commanders, who rule their daily lives. This month two cadets were expelled and one suspended when the cadet brigade commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: De-Escalation on the Campus | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Among Women Only is a wonderful tour de force about the self-made woman. The heroine is a Turin gamine with enough brains and beauty to make good in the silky Roman world of couture. She knows her men well, and her willingness to share their beds implies no regard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vita Without the Dolce | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

In 1934, Raymond I. Petersen ar rived from Chicago and formed a flying service to compete with Wien and others. After taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Out of the Bush | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

In the classroom, we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years of dreary teaching most of the Shaw students had gotten. But we were well aware that simple drill was not going to achieve miracles; we toyed with shock techniques designed to persuade students that classroom thinking could be...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: White Harvard Students Tutor At A Southern Negro College | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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