Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renewed clamoring for congressional gun control action, spurred by Charles Whitman's recent sniper rampage in Austin, Texas, the N.R.A. last week turned for a change to newspapers, buying full-page spreads in the Washington Post and the New York Times, both of which have editorialized vigorously for stronger gun laws. Over the legend, "America needs more straight shooters," the ads picture, of all people, a rifle-toting Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...beginnings of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution back to 1963, when a worried Mao instituted his "Socialist Education Movement" in an attempt to get the Chinese psychology back on the revolutionary tracks. Somewhere along the line, possibly at the secret Central Committee plenum of September 1965, he decided stronger doses of Mao-think were needed...
...findings were stark confirmation of studies made nine years ago (TIME, July 29, 1957), which showed that some cigarette manufacturers, anxious to get a satisfactory flavor past their filters and to their customers, had switched to stronger tobacco...
Doughty Helen. Verwoerd has never been stronger, in fact. Swallowing his old hatred of British South Africans, he has ventured into such English-speaking bastions as Durban to woo support for his policies, and his theme that all whites must unite behind him or be dispossessed by the Bantu usually gets a standing ovation and cries of "Hear, hear!" In Parliament, the once powerful United Party has been reduced to 39 seats. As an opposition party, Verwoerd once described it as "nothingness-both topless and bottomless." He is not far off. Its leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, offers vague motions...
...while she recuperated from deft surgical replacement of valves damaged by rheumatic fever. Two previous patients of Dr. DeBakey's, both men in their 60s, died despite aid from the heart pump; but at week's end the artificial half-heart was removed from the younger, stronger Mexican woman in a 20-minute operation, and her own heart beat effectively...