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Word: surely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white people who tell him to go slowly. He says this is a thing he cannot do. His people are dying. His life has been a prison. His skin has marked him forever as a man who was not free to live and breathe. He is not sure what Democracy should mean--but he knows he does not have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kozol Scores Boston Schools And Harvard's Apathetic Role | 10/21/1967 | See Source »

...other undergraduates). On the basis of past performances, he is bright enough; he passed standard British pre-college examinations with top marks. At the end of each year, he will take exams that will indicate how well he performs in the demanding climate of Cambridge. He still is not sure whether he will leave at the end of two years or stay the three required for a degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Princely Life | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...know what it wants. In Houston, for example, 54% of KHOU's callers felt that the U.S. should end its involvement in Viet Nam; but a few nights later, 73% voted in favor of escalating the war. Said Program Director Dean Borba: "We're not quite sure what that means." James Pederson, secretary of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, feels that it means that "the polls aren't worth anything." He should know: he voted 80 times in a poll that pitted Johnson against Reagan-and the President still lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Popping the Question | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...sure way to turn stockbrokers into reticent men is to broach the sensitive subject of their profits. Securities dealers owe much of their livelihood to investor confidence built up by public disclosure of corporate earnings. Yet the overwhelming majority of them consider their own net incomes to be nobody else's business. This double standard is well entrenched, wholly legal and-at least from a broker's view point-eminently logical. After all, partly by resisting demands for more such data, Wall Street has so far fended off the Securities and Exchange Commission's four-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: So Prosperous It Hurts | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...hours 45 minutes) in a 56-year mating game. All that sport cost him something like $2,000,000 in alimony and lawyers' fees, but Tommy was ever hopeful. Said he after a four-day engagement to wife No. 5: "We're glad we waited to be sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 20, 1967 | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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