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Word: pennsylvania (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Secretary Resor showed color photographs of massacre victims to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, none doubted that an atrocity had been committed. Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker described the affair as "a simplistic, deliberate act of inhumanity?one of the darkest days in American history." Near tears, Ohio's Stephen Young said he had seen a young woman begging not to be shot while a child clung to her neck and scenes of "youngsters who had been killed at close range, with their insides hanging out." He called it "an abominable atrocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...born loser? Not if he becomes a salesman for Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co., whose president cites this as the résumé of an ideal prospective employee. Penn Life offers such men an income that fairly often exceeds $20,000 and a smothering of somewhat unusual fringe benefits. According to President Stanley Beyer, 36: "We become the teacher who loved him, the mother-in-law who thinks he is great, the coach who gave him nine letters, the boss who wants to make him president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling: If Nobody Loves You, Your Company Will | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Three weeks ago this afternoon, while his teammates were beating Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, sophomore Rex Blankenship was throwing a football in the Eliot House courtyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Underdog Again in Game With Yale | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...push," they urged the marchers so that there would be no panic in the crowd. And "keep on the inside of the white line." they kept reminding everyone as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On the MarchThe Mobe Marshals | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...time we reached Pennsylvania Avenue, all the birds had taken refuge in one particular tree where they were setting off a tremendous racket. Suddenly, the crowd, which until then had been chanting walk, walk, now began to yell to each other not to go under that tree. And one girl sighed winsomely, "Even the birds are crying." Even? No, only...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Memoirs of a Would-be Street lighter | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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