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Word: nothingnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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I have heard similar, though smaller reports from returned servicemen-not rabid peaceniks but "average American boys" who defend their sickening conduct. I have done nothing about these accounts, and God knows what my guilt is. Am I the only one?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Sir: I am somewhat amazed at the naivete of Americans when it comes to fighting, killing, and war. They seem to have this idea that women and children are holy, pure and innocent, and are incapable of killing as men do. Nothing like a bottle of Coke half filled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The belief appears to be well founded. City officials and police are casually assumed to be on the take. Last year Newark Police Director Dominick Spina was indicted for "willful failure to enforce antigambling laws." His acquittal did nothing to convince Newarkers that their city was well policed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Corruption by Consent | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Gibbon's one ruling passion, contracted at the age of 27, nothing and nobody could cool. In famous words that still move a reader, Gibbon recorded love at first sight of the Eternal City on the evening of Oct. 15, 1764. Yet the gestation period for his great work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Country-Squire Roman | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Lion with B.O. Breslin parades a gaggle of neo-Runyonesque caricatures, proving mainly that Damon's were pithiest. There is, for instance, 425-pound Big Jelly Catalano, who likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Sammy Runyon? | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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