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Word: stench (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem to be living in a rights-oriented society in which the teaching of corresponding responsibilities is progressively neglected. Hence an increasing amount of crime, placing before the bench more and more defendants to be granted further rights. Those of us who dislike the stench of this trend are called "extremists." The club could use more members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 23, 1964 | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...thunderous dispute. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller blasted Barry's remarks as "dangerous, irresponsible and frightening." Barry shot back: "Extremism is no sin if you are engaged in the defense of freedom." California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown said the remarks had "the stench of Fascism." Retorted Barry: "It's the stench of Brown-it's ignorance." Dwight Eisenhower too was disturbed, declared that the remarks "would seem to say that the end always justifies the means." Added Ike: "The whole American system refutes that idea and that concept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The New Thrust, Barry Goldwater | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...county's once-slumbering towns -Mt. Gilead, Cardington and Edison, roughly 40 miles north of Columbus-dusty station wagons from several states competed for parking spaces. Husky, plastic-helmeted men searched for scarce furnished rooms. The night sky glowed orange, and the air was filled with an acrid stench. "That smell used to make me deathly sick," says one Morrow County resident, "but now it doesn't bother me at all." And why should it? It has become the smell of wealth, the sweet odor of Ohio's first oil boom since the turn of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Boom in Ohio | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...sisters' airless quarters with the animals, the stench becomes overpowering, but outside the smell is worse: surrounding the bobbing ark is an endless expanse of bloated, rotting human corpses. Once, the ark floats over what must have been a large city, for "the inhabitants had surfaced with much of their household furniture: there were tables, chairs, bedsteads, washtubs . . ." When the ark at last comes to rest on Mount Ararat, the twins slip away with one of Noah's grandsons, Gomer, into a lonely and devastated world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Deluge Revisited | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...Harvard hockey varsity will wend its way northward today to Waterville, Maine--a small town noted chiefly for the enveloping stench of paper mills-- to confront a Colby College sextet. Nicknamed, surely for good reason, the White Mules, the collegians from Colby have a reputation for being "keen" on hockey, according to Crimson coach Cooney Weiland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Varsity Will Battle Colby Today | 12/7/1963 | See Source »

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