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Word: stinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousand students in Delhi marched from the Red Fort in the old city to Connaught Place, shouting anti-Chinese slogans and waving banners reading "Choke the yellow opium eaters!" and "Wipe Out Chink Stink!" That evening, brandishing torches, the students charged police lines before the office of the Communist Party while a handful of Red underlings cowered in the darkness behind a hedge on the office lawn. The desperate Indian Communists finally issued a party statement denouncing both Moscow and Peking, and appealing to "all sections of the people to unite in defense of the motherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Fading Illusions | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Leader: Everett Dirkson | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...quickly, the report warns, California will be headed for harder times. "For we continue to have 1,500 new neighbors a day, a half a million a year; monstrous misplaced freeways; salty ground water supplies; park land scuffed and trampled like a pitcher's mound; a grey stink in the air. And like the great California grizzly, the slurb paws its way across that land of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Next: the Slurb | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Despite the verbal fireworks-as well as a few real fireworks and stink bombs-the campaign was marked by few real issues. Menzies confidently pointed to Australia's economic progress during his twelve-year tenure, promised "good government" rather than "a long list of promises." Naturally, he did not concentrate on the 2.3% unemployment rate which, though falling, is about twice the usual figure for Australia. Labor Party Candidate Arthur A. Calwell, 65, grandson of a U.S. gold prospector who left for Down Under in the gold rush of the 1850s, emphasized the unemployment issue, promised a grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Election with Gusto | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...pants and tell me how to run my business. Go back to Washington and tell Kennedy he can feed 'em. I wouldn't have a customer left if I let them people in here." Rosier's wife cried her agreement: "They're dirty and they stink. Would you want to sleep in a bed they'd slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Troubled Route | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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