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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey." Susskind suggests a reason for the carelessness: "It's as though Janáček figured his stuff wasn't going to be played anyway, so he might just as well write it the way he wanted to. But truth prevails. You can't keep a work of genius down forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rebirth of an Eccentric | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...short time. At the same time, the district hired a team of scientists from the University of California at Davis to find a way to control the gnats biologically. Led by Entomologist Sherburne F. Cook Jr., the team decided that a small fresh-water smelt, the Mississippi silverside, might find the gnats appetizing. In 1967 they "planted" 3,000 fingerlings in the lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Return of the Grebe | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...mortgages unattractive investments. If prices kept on rising during the 20 to 40 years that investors often must wait for full repayment of principal, investors eventually would get back dollars worth much less than those they originally lent. Meanwhile, interest rates would keep on climbing-to levels that might make even today's yields look piddling because lenders would demand even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then but is low now.) The end result of this process would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TURMOIL IN THE CAPITAL MARKETS | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Niven's lines are given a martini-dry delivery, and the Belmondo-Bourvil team meshes with the cooperative, competitive flair of Graebner and Ashe. Given those talents, the film might have been considerably more. Still, in a sorry season, The Brain is smart enough to pass for comedy. Th-th-that's all, folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mild Bunch | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...dropped it into copper sulfate to see whether I was anemic. Then she asked me 30 questions, including "Have you been exposed to malaria?" When I said I was unsure she told me people who go to Vietnam must flirt with this danger. I said I might know more about that in two years because my number...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: And Life Blood Today at Mem Hall | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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