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Word: latterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lockwood concern but the principal person of this private religion. But the chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that may be what is responsible for the nagging feeling that there is something lacking in the latter-day O'Hara. Any realistic story of the era includes the assault of the upwardly mobile upon the established rich. But O'Hara's as pirants never make it. Like Scott Fitzgerald before him, O'Hara feels that there is something implacably defeating about the always-have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Pygmalion | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...went Shuttlesworth's 180-day rap for arguing with Birmingham's police chief while the latter was taking Freedom Riders into "protective custody." Alabama's highest state court had refused to review the case because Shuttlesworth's lawyers petitioned on the wrong-size paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Litigation: The Champion | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...Latter-Day O'Learys. At first, many thought the darkness came from within. A middle-aged executive who had been playing a too-vigorous game of basketball wondered if the fading light before his eyes signaled a massive coronary. A waiter who had just been inoculated against hay fever had a moment of terror. "Zap!" he thought. "Wrong vaccine." In Manhattan, a Negro maid looked out the window, told her employer to come on over and see "all the lights going out in tribute to Dorothy Kilgallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Northeast: The Disaster That Wasn't | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Scores concluded that, like latter-day Mrs. O'Learys, they were personally to blame for the blackout. After trimming the ends of some loose wires in readiness for the house painters next day, a Manhattan housewife saw the whole city go black and gasped: "What have I done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend, and raced home weeping to his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Northeast: The Disaster That Wasn't | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, mostly by driving them into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ADVENTURE & THE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALIST | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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