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Word: folksing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week FBI agents moved through Fayette County, trying to determine whether the Negroes' constitutional rights have been violated. The white folks pshawed all that talk of boycotts and blacklists. But the Negroes, using their own underground network of maids and cooks, secured two lists that are secretly circulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Wrongs Beyond Rights | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

Allie knew only by hearsay of the men-folks' downtown gambling and gun toting, because the men always kept their women out of sight; to her, the legendary Tombstone years were primarily a time of waiting and worrying about whether Virgil would come home at night alive. Lodged at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Gun & Sewing Machine | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Toward the Sun. Eventually, the Earp men met their various grim ends. Aunt Allie herself lived on until 1947, a spry pioneer widow who entertained her friends with stories tall and small. "Nature's good to folks," she used to say. "They never remember the rain and the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Gun & Sewing Machine | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

Univac & Unity. By convention's end, many a delegate had the feeling that he had been whipsawecf by a Univac in a button-down collar. But the Kennedy organization, now renowned for its attention to detail, instantly set about patching up the bruises. Johnson pep-talked a bunch of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Fair Lyndon | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Author Vladimir Nabokov was in the news in two distant lands, where his controversial novel Lolita was upsetting both decent and indecent folks. In New Zealand a Supreme Court judge upheld a customs ban on the book. Ruled Sir Douglas Hutchison: "With the best consideration I can give it, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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