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...given time." Rejoins Cato: "Morality then, to New Publius, is the temporary decision of a majority of those who happen to take the effort to think about it ... The 'national conscience' resides in Washington, and if New Publius has his way it will be extended to every nook and cranny of the land at bayonet point, if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Goto v. Publius in the White House | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...eternal routines?" asks Buntaro Nagasaka, manager of the Hotel New Japan in Kobe. "We provide our patrons with something new and exciting in beds to help trigger a greater bliss for them." The most sensational trigger: a double bed that moves slowly upward eight feet into a mirror-covered nook in the ceiling. Another, simpler model features a mirror that drops suddenly to a position only four feet over the bed. Explains Manager Nagasaka: "Shocked and terrified, your partner is bound to grab hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Moving Beddo | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...dame piked for the chigrel nook For gorms for her ball belljeemer; The gorms had shied, the nook was strung, And the ball belljeemer had neemer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...piked to boont in your moche geekin' on a motel?" he said. "Motel's strung, kimmie, but pike in the nook an' whittle a slib by the jeffer. Got enough zeese for a gormin' tidric. You from Belk?" We repeated our question, more slowly. He seemed to understand. "There's a nonch sluggin' nook ye can pike to," he said and gestured up the road. We thanked him and went back to our rented car, which wouldn't start. Finally, we walked the way he pointed, found the rickety New Boonville Hotel, roused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...child learning his nursery rhymes, Old Mother Hubbard would go like this: "The old dame piked for the chigrel nook/ For gorms for her ball belljeemer;/ The gorms had shied, the nook was strung,/ And the ball belljeemer had neemer."* Then there were the code names for nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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