Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more. History happens too fast now." Others were frankly bewildered. "What can you do? What can any single citizen do?" asked Mrs. John Freter in Los Angeles. "The events seem far beyond my control. I'm afraid I end up wondering what they're selling pot roast for this week...
TIME correspondents in city after city found Americans thinking well beyond pot roast as they measured personal involvement with news. Said Sam Weller, a Salt Lake City book salesman: "We're going in the right direction now. There is no need for the United States merely to be caught up in events. We can control them." And nearly every eye was on Washington to see whether "we" - mean ing the President of the U.S. - would. "God. I hope he's up to it, " said a Los Angeles housewife apprehensively. In Albuquerque, Alice Schaab, wife of a tax lawyer...
...expatriates of the '20s whom Gertrude Stein named the Lost Generation. With the help of eager squares, including some journalists, the beats even styled themselves a Movement-but it was one of the great stationary movements of all time, since nothing budges that is fueled by pretension and pot...
...Beat the Devil comes to having a point. It's a sprawling, funny film, reminiscent of the good old days when our Movie Industry was alive. It might pay to forget those grand resolutions about buckling down for the new semester. The term can just as well go to pot while there's a good movie around...
From a lobster pot 116 feet deep in the waters off Jewell Island, Me. came a possible clue to the mystery disappearance of France's late Captain Charles Nungesser, who vanished somewhere over the Atlantic 34 years ago. Lodged in the pot was a fragment of an instrument panel, which may have come from Nungesser's ill-fated biplane, L'Oiseau Blanc. On May 8, 1927, the dashing Nungesser and his navigator, François Coli, took off from Paris, aiming at the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which awaited the first man to fly nonstop between Paris...