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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cryogenic (supercold) liquid in a large, well-insulated tank. Unfortunately, if you do not drive a large number of miles in a relatively short time, the liquefied natural gas boils off. If your car sits in the driveway for a few weeks while you're on vacation, you may return to find your fuel has evaporated. Not only is this bothersome and expensive, but I suspect this evaporated hydrocarbon fuel may pollute the atmosphere with unburned hydrocarbons similar to those from evaporating gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...may I add that I hope that stringent laws against heterosexuals who "commit forcible rape, seduce children or commit sex acts in public" will remain on the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...rebellious young, the military-industrial complex and the Viet Cong. "You can't fight city hall," he wrote. "It keeps changing its name." It would be too easy to believe that all of today's radical young will slip into cantankerous conservatism. But some undoubtedly will. It may be that Robert Frost had the most sensible formula. Frost was a conservative in his youth, he said, so that he might be free to be anarchistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: End of the Road | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...race, however, is not over yet. Lindsay headquarters is worried that the News poll will encourage Marchi backers to desert a lost cause and swing heavily to Procaccino. Further, Lindsay's strong showing among Negroes in the sampling may not be translated proportionately into ballots next week because of intensive efforts by black radicals to effect a Negro boycott of all three candidates. But in the campaign's last days, it is the challenger, not the mayor, who must struggle to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: A Trumanesque Comeback | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

THOUGH they may disagree with his policies, foreign diplomats will find it difficult to dislike West Germany's new Foreign Minister. Affable and engaging, Walter Scheel, who is also the leader of the Free Democratic Party, has the relaxed manner and quick wit of a Rhinelander. An adept mime, he delights in performing creditable imitations of other West German politicians. He loves to tell jokes, often making himself the butt. At a recent ball in West Berlin, for example, he showed up wearing a hand-lettered sign on his lapel that read in English: "Kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jester in Striped Pants | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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