Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devil is loose," mourned one young hippie, "and as long as he is loose, there will always be wrong things." Then a score of hippies in Denver murmured prayers for a "beautiful person" named Carol and a requiem for Carol's little Billy...
...pleas for restraint had cascaded into Athens and Ankara from all over the world. The most effective one arrived in the person of former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, 50, who came as the emissary of President Johnson. Jetting into Ankara, he met for 80 minutes with Premier Demirel, impressed on him the urgency of keeping NATO's Eastern hinge intact, and asked for a chance to save the peace by exploring whether the Greeks would go along with some form of troop withdrawal if the Turks pledged not to invade...
Funk believed it was preferable for a person to obtain his daily requirement of vitamins from natural foodstuffs. "I get the vitamins I need from eating the right foods," he once said, and his fitness attested to the claim. Nonetheless, he maintained that such factors as bad soil and poor cooking made artificial vitamins not only necessary but "sometimes indispensable...
Every student spends one afternoon a week on Community Activities, doing volunteer service in Watertown or Cambridge. Tutoring, teaching modern dance, and special work projects on the school grounds show a desire to "be careful not to isolate a person from the vaster community outside of the school," as one student wrote in the yearbook, explaining this facet of school work...
...missing-heir dodge. The twist is important. In the past, a con man would approach a few selected victims with a well-prepared line of talk and ask for a few hundred dollars to cover his expenses. The large sum requested required a risky in-person performance. A promoter of the new scheme can use a photocopy machine and the mails to approach thousands of potential customers. All he has to do is follow the local probate court proceedings and then use phone books from all over the U.S. to find addresses of people with the same last name...