Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduction of the "Little Brother" doll has predictably resulted in irrational, moralistic, and highly emotional protests. The very absurdity of the outcries tends to obscure potentially valid objections. While doll play begins at an early age, little girls continue this interest during a later period characterized by exclusion and disparagement of the opposite sex. There is much psychiatric evidence suggesting that this period of sexual disinterest has healthy purposes. It aids the normal repression of highly threatening infantile sexual conflicts and allows time for exploration and growth in the demanding process of simply learning to deal with others...
...situation to that of other wartime Presidents. Exchanging toasts with Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato during a dinner at the White House, he declared: "Let us, Mr. Prime Minister, take courage from Lincoln's words, when he said to his Cabinet in that other tragic period: 'I am here, I must do the best I can, and bear the responsibility of taking the course which I feel I ought to take...
Britain's endemic deficits are usually largest in times of expansion, when Britons, fully employed and flush with cash, step up their purchases of goods from abroad. This time, however, Britain is in the trough of a government-imposed slowdown now 18 months old, a belt-tightening period of austerity imposed by Wilson's government after another sterling crisis...
...country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years. The pattern soon became all too familiar: a period of expansion leading straight to the brink of bankruptcy for sterling at $2.80, then a rescue loan to buy time while the government damped down the economy. Once a spell of austerity built up Britain's reserves anew, governments invariably felt politically impelled to relax restrictions and let the whole expansion-to-the-brink process begin again...
...hustling Eli booters of Hubert Vogelsinger claim a narrow 2-1 loss to Brown and a scoreless tie with Penn, the two Ivy teams that have beaten Harvard. The Ivy champion Bruins needed a second-period penalty kick to edge the Yalies...