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Word: microcosms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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European immigration has left Wisconsin with a distinct state culture rather than a microcosm of the national culture. Early settlers brought native European culture with them--their food, dress, dances and community customs...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: A View of Wisconsin | 3/21/1968 | See Source »

...early 1900s. Its white and black lawyers have been in the fore front of civil rights campaigns. So amicable has its climate been that Memphis police have never faced a serious charge of brutality. Yet last week Memphis simmered on the rim of racial rampage-a premonition in microcosm of next summer's national threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Memphis: Pre-Summer Blues | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...invited the New Yorker to challenge Nixon in his bailiwick, where Rockefeller beat Goldwater in 1964 and where Nixon is now vulnerable. Rockefeller and Nixon, said McCall, "are the best. If we had them, it would be a primary at its very best in a state that is a microcosm of the national election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The New Rules of Play | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...identified with the white group up front and my status on the job was low enough so I could talk to the people in the back and I was smart enough so I got to be friends with the manager. In effect, I got to observe a microcosm of American society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The True Story of a Disenchanted But Not Hung-Up Son of Harvard | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...entourage of four jet planes and 300 people and spent the next five days in a dizzying, 26,959-mile circuit of the globe. The original reason for his cyclonic odyssey was to attend services for Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt. Characteristically, Johnson transformed it into a microcosm of his coming campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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