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Word: stillnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still, reports Harris, a mood of pessimism-not unlike that of France following its 1954 debacle in Indo-China -pervades the country. "The irony," says Harris, "is that the American mood is as pessimistic as it is without a Dienbienphu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans on the War Divided, Glum, Unwilling to Quit | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...points from a low of 35% in September to 45% on Oct. 14, the last day of interviewing for the poll and the day before the Viet Nam moratorium. Yet 50% of the general public and 53% of the leaders gave him a negative rating, proving that he is still highly vulnerable on the war issue. Nixon's handling of the negotiations to end the war won him no more kudos. Only 45% of the general public and 43% of the leaders approved his handling of the negotiations, while 49% of the public and 53% of the leaders gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans on the War Divided, Glum, Unwilling to Quit | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...Dinis took the stand to testify that he had indeed wanted an autopsy. But, said he, by the time he had decided to order one the day after Mary Jo's death, he was informed that the body had been flown back to Pennsylvania. Actually, the body was still waiting in a plane at the Martha's Vineyard airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys: Rehearsal for an Inquest | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...with any advantage? A vendetta against the Kennedys? Ridiculous!" His fulminations aside, Dinis was following respectable legal procedure in seeking the autopsy -though he could have saved both Kennedy and the Kopechnes much grief by ordering the examination on the day of the death, while the body was still in his jurisdiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys: Rehearsal for an Inquest | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...elected again!" yelled one woman. Trying to do just that, Lindsay last week returned to the same territory in a strange, triumphal procession. Surrounded by an honor guard of garbagemen aboard new snowplows, Lindsay soothed housewives with promises that they would never be snowbound again. The natives, while still skeptical, were nevertheless far friendlier than they had been last winter -and even friendlier than only a few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: A Trumanesque Comeback | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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