Word: hangups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trains rush along through the six Common Market countries, Austria and Switzerland, at speeds up to 100 m.p.h., saving travelers much of the airlines' baggage-handling hangup and the time-consuming trip to and from out-of-city airports. TEE passengers sometimes find themselves beating jet time - especially on trips of 250 miles or less. Like Ja pan's New Tokaido Line, whose Hikari and Kodama bolt between Osaka and Tokyo at speeds up to 130 m.p.h., Trans Europe trains are built for comfort as well as speed. While he travels from...
Dixie Dozen. In Georgia, the hangup was a matter of old math-Southern style. With 451,032 votes, Republican Congressman Howard Call away had an undisputed lead over Democrat Lester Maddox, who had 448,598. But Democrat Ellis Arnall, a former Governor and the contest's only racial moderate, got 57,832 write-in votes and, under an amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution...
...wonder why sex is the big hangup. I was on a television show recently. It was double-A time, you know, people eating TV dinners on trays and ali. And the announcer said, 'Father Boyd, are you in favor of premarital sex?' And I replied in the only honest way I could: 'Do you mean masturbation, petting to orgasm, or coitus?' And he said, 'We must pause now for a commercial...