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Word: forays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being admitted to the bar, and you're not [a resident]-there's a rather unpleasant word for that. It bothers me." Oddly enough, Morrissey, the Justice Department and Teddy Kennedy's office had all neglected to inform the Judiciary Committee of Morrissey's educational foray in Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Judiciary: From Pillory to Post | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Ludwig Erhard's maiden foray in his six-week election campaign began with an address in the nation's largest egg auction hall. There some 2,000 farmers and their families in the Saxon market town of Cloppenberg stood stolidly as the Chancellor launched into his basic campaign theme for 1965: the need to develop in West Germany a formierte Gesellschaft, meaning a well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: A Piglet for Onkel | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...high point of mingei came during the Edo period, a time of Japanese prosperity in isolation preceding Admiral Perry's naval foray, which in 1853 opened the door to the West. Folk art was austere, subdued, even restrained in its lack of showy flourish and its casual asymmetry. The anonymous artisan's ideal was shibui, which translates as "astringent" or, as a contemporary mingei potter defines it, "ordered poverty." Mingei is still created in Japan today; the Japan Folk Craft Society has 3,000 members and the government has named 31 craftsmen as living "Intangible Cultural Assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Beauty from Poverty | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...President flew to New York for a private fund-raising dinner of the President's Club, an organization of Democratic contributors who each give at least $1,000 a year to the party. The political foray took Johnson to what has become an off-year hot spot. Feuding New York Democrats suddenly face a real contest because Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay is running against Mayor Robert Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Something of Value | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

Charles de Gaulle has yet to announce his candidacy, but any who doubted his intention of seeking a second term in this year's presidential election had only to watch him in action last week to change their minds. Sweeping out of Paris in the first major foray of the election year, le grand Charles was grandly in the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The First Foray | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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