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Word: learnedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That sounds good. Unfortunately, Surplus Commodities has several built-in problems, both in concept and execution. Poor families learned quickly that there was no way to get enough commodities to feed the family; the supply of free food usually lasts ten or twelve days into the month. But that was...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: For Over-All Misery, Alabama Wins Handily | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Southern police have goten shrewder since the old days of marches in Selma and Birmingham. Police chiefs have learned that brutality, arrests, tear gas and fire hoses offer at best a temporary solution, because there is no way for the Old South to hold out against the Northern press...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: For Over-All Misery, Alabama Wins Handily | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

When they learned on Sunday, September 22, that Olimpieri was arriving, the seven Divinity School students immediately presented a letter to Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, to inform him of their action. Stendahl received the letter at 12:15 p.m.; the press was informed of the sanctuary at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Background Of Sanctuary Plan | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

But our movement won't stop when and if this war should end. We have learned our lesson--we must go on to change the institutions of our society, the institutions that produced this abominable war, the institutions that have perpetuated the servitude of black Americans for more than 300...

Author: By Henry Norr, | Title: "These Are Times for Real Choices" | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

"I don't like the idea of funny fiction," says Wilfrid Sheed. "When I started writing, my first impulse was toward humor, but I soon learned that I wanted to use it for serious purposes." Sheed's first models were the "flat but musical" styles of such Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheed's Specters of the Past | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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