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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response has been abundant and heartwarming. Leo Burnett Co. Inc.'s ad on environment and pollution resulted in requests for 30,000 reprints. After urging the silent citizen to speak out, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Inc. received a flood of congratulations, including one note allowing that "maybe Madison Avenue isn't all bad after all." The ad that has so far drawn the most active response was by Young & Rubicam (Oct. 24), which urged citizens to help construct play areas in ghettos and reminded everyone that little parks can be built even with nickels. To date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...also resorts to vivid metaphors in urging that counterrevolutionaries not be executed. "A head isn't like a leek," he said. "It doesn't grow again once it's been cut." Mao's most recurrent metaphors refer to the digestive process, which evidently fascinates him. In his Lushan speech, in which he characteristically called on his colleagues to join him in discharging their feelings of guilt for the failures of the Great Leap, he concluded with this scatological flourish: "Comrades, your stomachs will feel much more comfortable if you move your bowels and break wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Mao Papers: A New View of China's Chairman | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Cambridge the other day. Before that someone backed into the front of the car while I was upstairs asleep. They wiped out a headlight and some other stuff. They rip my bumper stickers off my bumper if they don't like them And I rip off theist. Too bad, isn...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: In the Streets Cars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...accomplishing something. "I want to make my money myself, not just let someone invest it for me." No, he didn't want to stay in entertainment all his life. The people are fun and it's okay while you're young, but it isn't suited to a serious businessman's mentality: he thought in terms of receipts, not glamor...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Bathed in red light, he whirls it over his head, pretending he's about to throw it, but of course he isn't, though hundreds of hands, urged on by the very thought of Mick Jagger's belt to fondle and to hold, to prance around in, are outstretched in feverish anticipation...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The flea-bit painted monkey Got Live If You Want It | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

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