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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates have not yet spoken explicitly and specifically about scores of basic issues that go to the heart of America's future. They have not revealed a definitive set of priorities for applying the nation's resources to its problems. They have not even produced much eloquent, let alone elevated language, no memorable line that is worthy of becoming a clich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THOSE LITTLE-DISCUSSED CAMPAIGN ISSUES | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them dutifully stayed away from class. A U.F.T. rally outside City Hall drew a surprising 40,000 supporters, who paraded with signs and cheered Shanker's hysterical statement: "We are not about to let our schools be taken over by Nazi types and gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: The Use and Misuse of Power | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...takes a certain concentrated foolishness to let a show bomb twice. We Bombed in New Haven did just that. It is now rebombing in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Indiscriminate Bombing | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...Looking like a crestfallen road-show narrator for Our Town, Robards doesn't indicate that an atom of sex is dancing in his head. Sleek, sassy Diana Sands seems about as vulnerable as a Navy destroyer with guns blazing. They act together as if they had never met, let alone shared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Indiscriminate Bombing | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...itself an even higher quota of 15%. The search for black talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply. I think instead we ought to start ourselves a rent-a-Negro company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: Crossing the Color Line | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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