Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fail to say that the mob, not the pacifists, are the anarchists in ignoring the law; that the mob were the cowards with their 10-1 odds; that the mob supported the Viet Cong by using its despicable, terroristic tactics. Incidents like this are an insult to the American democratic process; it makes me ill that TIME can write about it without condemning...
Graduate applications have increased 75% in the past five years, partly because seniors apply to as many as ten schools - paying an application fee of about $10 for each-to guarantee acceptance somewhere. About 70% fail to land their first choice. To handle all the applicants, some graduate schools have expanded their enrollments by as much as 20% a year in the past five years. The worst is still ahead: the postwar babies, now undergraduates, will begin to gang up on graduate gates in 1968. By 1970, there will be about 800,000 graduate students...
...croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here's the mail that came today/ His silver wings and green beret; Come all ye young maidens, and hear my sad tale/ 'Bout a brave young trooper whose 'chute did fail"). If Viet Nam has produced a true war poet, he is no doubt too busy fighting to write...
...empowered to order that all cars have more padding, fewer knobs, fire-resistant upholstery, safer glass and door locks-and to fine the domestic manufacturers $1,000 per violation (or countless millions on a year's production of a major model), and to seize foreign autos that fail to meet the standards...
...meaning of positive effort. Their only real interest is sex." Youthful Yugoslav Author Mihajlo Mihajlov recently wrote President Tito that any fears that reading Western literature could "infect" Mihajlov with a "foreign ideology" are unfounded. His proof: "I have been reading Communist literature since childhood, and I still fail to find any sympathy for Communism...