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Word: swings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whitla said that science education has gone through several stages over the last few years-overemphasis after Russia's initial space program successes and underemphasis in the "occult-oriented" sixties. He said that he would like to see the NSF program bring about a swing back to a greater emphasis on elementary science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Reports on Science Education | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...behavior experts are totally opposed to group sex, but few take such a sanguine view as Comfort. Many believe that participants are often emotionally disturbed, immature men and women whose sexual activities provide distraction but no solution to basic problems. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other, and use wife-swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Anthropologist Gilbert Bartell believes that "sensitive" people find group sex "too mechanistic," that "there is a loss of identity and an absence of commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Swinging Future | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...departure of the two sisters, who have again become locked into their emotional stalemate, Anna opens the leatherbound diary in which Agnes has made entries during her illness. She reads Agnes' account of a day during the late summer when all four women sat together in a garden swing, "as we were in childhood. All my aches and pains were gone. Come what may, this is happiness. Now, for a few minutes, I can experience perfection." Anna draws comfort from this passage, and "the whispers and cries," the murmured intimations of turmoil and panic that have been like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four Women | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...greatest technical triumphs when he copied the design of a grounded U.S. B-29 and put a Soviet version into production within a year. Tupolev remained active until his 80s, and is thought to be the creator of the new Soviet bomber. Backfire, the world's first swing-wing intercontinental bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1973 | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...swing-wing F14, which can take off from land runways or carriers and has a primary mission of protecting the fleet against air attack, has proved extremely effective in tests. Actual construction of the planes in the latest Navy order is not set to start until mid-1974, and company officials believe that they can work out a satisfactory arrangement with the Navy before then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE CONTRACTORS: Grumman v. the Navy | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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