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Word: husking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is nothing fatal or final to point to. In Britain, the Tories still hold the husk of the Establishment and hope in the upcoming elections to make it "Four in a Row." The new element is the familiar Anti-Nuclear Bomb movement of today, but in FitzGibbon's time its pony-tailed and sandaled youth has swollen into the biggest political fact in Britain, led by zealots and exploited by those who know that pacifism cannot help but help the Russians. And when, in a landslide-election win, the anti-Bomb boys and girls take power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FitzGibbon's Decline & Fall | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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