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Word: scrapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assailed by such temptations of existential heroism. For the most part, the U.S. serviceman fights hard, risks his life and sometimes gives it in the service of his country. It seems unreasonable to ask him to continue risking his life in prison merely to avoid signing a scrap of paper that nobody takes very seriously anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: NEW COMPASSION FOR THE PRISONER OF WAR | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...metalwork was his business. When he saw the mobiles in Shingu's Roman studio, he invited Shingu to come back to Japan and live and work in his shipyard, where there would be plenty of welders and painters to help him-to say nothing of unlimited amounts of scrap steel to work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Dancing in the Wind | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...QUEEN AND I (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A scheming purser (Larry Storch) meets his nemesis in Billy De Wolfe, who plays a first officer on the S.S. Amsterdam Queen, an ancient ocean liner steaming toward the scrap pile. Premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...regarding the Middle East situation." Tekoah continued, making a justifiable point that most Israelis felt summed up their case: "Is the single life of the Israeli engineer killed in Athens worth less than all the metal and wire and upholstery destroyed in Beirut? Are we to hear that the scrap iron of airplanes is worth more than Jewish blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE RISKS OF REPRISAL | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Nixon would like to shift Operation Head Start, one of the few major successes of the war on poverty, to HEW. The poverty program's effort to furnish legal aid to the poor may be assigned to the Justice Department. Nixon and Moynihan would also like to scrap the Job Corps, which they consider inefficient. But he would need congressional approval for such steps-sanction that would not be easily obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Administration: Easing Into Power | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

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