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Word: switch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suddenly offered to us out of the air. Sitting on tall stools, 11 readers manage to fill more than 70 parts, and for the most part, their many duplications are neither annoying nor indeed very noticeable. This goes particularly for Madeline Rosten and Anna Kay Moses, the only women, switch about genially from whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Under Milk Wood | 5/11/1961 | See Source »

...graduating Seniors feel the diplomas even out at Commencement are not as handsome as those for next year, the president continued, they can exchange resident diplomas for the new design next summer. The President reiterated that he had "no idea" the switch to English would produce such a response...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Overseers Reject Change in 1961 English Diplomas | 5/10/1961 | See Source »

...addition to this switch in constituency, a feeling of disenchantment on the part of the workers is another prime cause of "unrest" in the party. Mrs. Roosevelt claimed that many city-dwellers are beginning to feel that there are certain problems which neither party is facing...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Mrs. Roosevelt Discusses Democratic Party Unrest | 5/2/1961 | See Source »

...Class Committee is no longer considering handing out 10,000 bogus English diplomas, especially in the light of favorable response to the letter it has sent to about 250 influential alumni. Besides the switch from Latin to English, the letter criticizes the new printing process (in place of engraving), the lack of establishment on the 1961 diplomas, the absence of the Harvard seal, and the quality of the paper...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Non-U Diplomas Need Approval | 5/2/1961 | See Source »

Their own catching, lilting, hand-clap rhythm has helped establish the Grandisons as the freshest gospel-singing group in the land. And despite their switch from churches to liquor-serving clubs, the girls have no regrets. Says Mary Grandison: People in the nightclubs accept the music more than people in the churches. It's more quiet here. It's almost reverent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Sanctity with a Beat | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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