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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even savage tribes, and in fact the lower animals, have strict sex regulations. This is necessary, as human experience has demonstrated. Now we have partially educated smart alecks who seem to feel that they have discovered sex. Their cry for emancipation from what they term prudery shows their stupidity and lack of anthropological perspective. We don't need more license; we need more common sense, restraint and decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...pressing domestic needs. Given the temper of Congress and the Nixon Administration, and the continuing costs of war, that shift is not likely to happen soon. The very success of Apollo 11 is an augury that the level of space spending may not be cut. The liberals seem out of tune with the majority of middle Americans-at least for now. Middle America does not seem discontented with the present ordering of national values. It elected Richard Nixon and strongly backs the U.S. space program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MOON AND MIDDLE AMERICA | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...leader of these people who have paid their taxes, kept the wheels of the country turning, absorbed ridicule from their children and from college professors without saying much. Nixon has given a voice to the majority that did not know it was a majority. Suddenly a few things seem to be going right. This is encouragement to Nixon; this is what his kind of people can do. There is something to be said for it. There is some praise due all those middle-stratum Americans who do the best they know how, trying to do what is honorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MOON AND MIDDLE AMERICA | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Kennedy in Shock? In many ways, common sense chafes at the idea of shock, particularly the kind that Kennedy described. How could he remember some things so well and other things not at all? His memory did indeed seem highly selective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

This emphasis on rural economic development has been concurrent with the achievement of full employment for everybody, including agricultural workers. How Did The Revolution Find Employment For People Where There Didn't Seem To Be Any Before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sam Bowles Takes a Look at Cuba | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

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