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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential race recalls to memory the words of Essayist William Hazlitt: "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." I weep a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Bulletproof. Steiner's mercenary officers are a mixed lot, united only by loyalty to their commander, distinguished only by their combat experience and their foibles. Major Taffy, 34, Welsh and a veteran of the Fifth Commando mercenaries of the Congo, thinks he is bulletproof. By now, so do the federals, who have reported him dead at least five times since last December. Taffy came perilously close to being killed a few weeks ago, when a round smashed into his binoculars. Short-tempered, he curses his black troops constantly, threatening to kill them if they don't obey orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: The Mercenaries | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...about the business. "The approach to dealing his changed since last year," she said. "People are more open about it now." Other things have also changed. "For one thing, prices have gone up." An ounce of grass now goes for twenty dollars in the street. "And an awful lot of the dealing is now done through the Mafia. They buy up all the stuff, and use local stores as their headquarters. We don't even know who exactly deals with them, but it makes it really hard to get a decent price...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Boston Hips In The Off-Season | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...police have been stopping people on Charles St., trying to crack down, asking for I.D.'s," Janet said. She was stopped last week. "I had almost a pound of grass and a lot of acid," she said, "so I showed my college I.D. and he let me go. If I didn't have stuff I would have refused; they will take you in to the station then and you can get them for false arrest...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Boston Hips In The Off-Season | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...Wasn't this a secondary boycott, and wasn't that illegal? When the store closed at ten o'clock, the picketers tallied the two, three, or five shoppers they had each turned away, added to the total a few who might have seen the picket line from the parking lot and gone to shop elsewhere--and counted the evening a relative success...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Clean Revolution | 10/22/1968 | See Source »

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