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Word: gracefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Americans of late have altered their views about the complex and bewildering war in Viet Nam without feeling obliged to offer elaborate justifications. Politicians, too, change their minds, and the good ones do so with such grace that people hardly notice, or such logic that everyone understands. Last week Michigan's Governor George Romney offered so inept an explanation of his shifting views on Viet Nam that it could end his presidential ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Brainwashed Candidate | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...idling along in a dull job as a salesman for the family firm. Struck with an idea, he designed a pair of triangles to be sewn into the droopy women's knitwear bathing suits of the day. The new wrinkle-first built-in bras ever to grace Danish suits-proved to be a standout at the beaches and a smash at the cash register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Inventions on Demand | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis re-creates with considerable grace the tyro schoolmarm of Bel Kaufman's bestselling novel about a "problem area" high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred to as "Her Royal Highness" instead of having to scruff along as "Her Grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...public-address system has replaced the megaphone, and jet planes overhead often add a discordant note. But the grace notes of yesterday still abound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Trills, Toots & Oompah-pahs | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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