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Word: nordics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race rivalry. Blaming Adam on the small fraction of Negro heritage he claims and abuses is as inappropriate as blaming the "game" you speak of on Caucasians, for Powell cannot sensibly be considered Negro any more than he can sensibly be considered truly American. The sensitive person of Nordic, African or whatever stock you please places men like Powell in the simple category, "moral garbage," which is a totally integrated system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Connery often turns into a partisan defender. Scandinavia's much publicized sexual laxity, which in turn produces a high rate of divorce, abortion and venereal disease, cannot be called anything so simple as immorality, he argues: the Scandinavians are merely honest when it comes to sex. "To the Nordic mind, Americans and Englishmen are sexual hypocrites: their pretenses are puritan and Victorian, while their performance is entirely the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in a Cold Climate | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could not save the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Cost of Incarceration | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 20, 1966 | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...Sise '67, a standout in both cross-country and jumping, was chosen captain of the 1967 Nordic ski squad. Sise won the Class C jumping event at Andover, Me, last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Captain | 3/16/1966 | See Source »

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