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Word: hyphen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senate Pentagon Critic William Proxmire declares that "the Navy and Grumman are not slugging it out but doing a minuet to deceive the American public." Whether or not culpability extends that far, the hyphen that separates the military-industrial complex-the phrase that President Dwight D. Eisenhower popularized twelve years ago this month-may have grown one notch shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTRACTORS: The Navy as Banker | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...things I like best about Bennington is that it's not-Harvard--not-Harvard with a hyphen, sort of like anti-Christ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parkers | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...Radicals, in today's lexicon, include bomb throwers and those committed to destroying American institutions. Liberals, often criticized by Agnew as being too soft, cannot by any stretch of definition be lumped in with violent extremists. Yet the Vice President does the trick with a flick of the hyphen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Missiles from the Michelle Ann | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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