Word: return
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good to see the recent return to normalcy. Damn good. Things were all messed up, and there seemed to be no direction to what was happening. But then Elvis returned to the charts. After that, the Sox and Senators started winning. And now, after unheard of success by Penn teams in competition with Harvard, coach Harry Parker sent his heavyweight crew out to right matters. Equality can be a good thing, but when Harvard starts losing to the Quakers in all manner of sports, I think things have gone...
Demanding Fukki. Both in Tokyo and the Okinawan capital of Naha, Okinawans held demonstrations too, but of a far more purposeful and peaceful nature. In Naha, about 20,000 showed up to hear Chief Executive Chobyo Yara and Shinei Kyan, head of the Council for the Return of Okinawa Prefecture to the Fatherland, demand that Okinawa revert to Japanese control. "The more people shout," said Kyan, "the stronger will be public opinion for our goal." Shouting is hardly needed to convince most Okinawans: Yara was elected last November on a platform demanding fukki, or immediate reversion. Yara has no illusions...
Afterwards, was it time to return to dispensing pills on his suburban rounds? Not a bit of it. "I'd rather be a conductor than a doctor any time," Bialoguski said. Whereupon he packed his reviews and his pocket-edition scores into a battered briefcase and set out in search...
Most foreign words visit the English language with a limited visa; a few stay on for life. Very likely, the word guru is a temporary resident, booked for a return trip to India. Some future etymologist studying the phrases of the '60s will do well, then, to examine the content of the film The Guru. It provides a more acute and melancholy definition than any current dictionary...
...Professor Sacks introduced a resolution requesting the intruders to leave, which was passed by a three-to-one margin. The intruders rejected this request. They also rejected a proposal, that they leave temporarily so that the SEADAG meeting could continue and return later in the afternoon to participate with the SEADAG scholars in an open forum on U.S. policy in Vietnam...