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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Western nation forced to ac cept a reduced vision of its importance is Britain, which managed to make the best of it by agreeing with Malcolm Muggeridge that second-rate powers had "great fun." Britain's new devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE FRENCH FACE MEDIOCRITY | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...trouble. Orange marchers taunted the Catholics down in Bogside with pennies, miniature cannons, and cobblestones. A few Bogsiders went to the parade route and taunted the marchers with cobblestones, bottles, and jeers. The police stood by and it seemed that they would wisely let the boys have their fun and all would go home at dusk. Most of Londonderry and Bogside went about a normal day's business...

Author: By Shan VAN Vocht, | Title: Ireland: If Joyce Could See It Now | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...WOODY ALLEN SPECIAL (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Woody, Candy and Billy (Allen, Bergen and Graham), plus the Fifth Dimension, having fun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 19, 1969 | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...that Alice Springs is 1,000 miles from the sea, and the Todd, which has flowed only five times in the past ten years, was dry as a bone. Henley-on-Todd is the Aussies' put-down of England's very proper Henley-on-Thames Regatta. Fun it may be, but it also involves work: slogging through the sand of the riverbed is exhausting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Ankles Aweigh | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...what makes our job fun is deciding which PRL's to believe. For instance the boy in the class of 1964 with the lowest PRL graduated magna cum laude. We didn't believe...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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