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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry Lewis '68 flicked a switch in front of him. Orange lights began to flash, a blue cross flitted about the computer screen like Tinkerbell, and a circle on the screen was slowly--dot by dot--transformed into an airplane wing...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Computer Stops Counting, Draws | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

Stokes, who had played down race during his primary campaign, has already lost potential votes by his switch in tactics. "My family is Republican, but they were sold on Stokes until they heard him say that," said Chuck Christian, 29, a white plant timekeeper. "Now forget it." Added a Negro politician: "Stokes had it in a runaway. Now it's anybody's horse race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleveland: Into the Mud | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

Before the week was out, the Chicago American's cartoonist Wayne Stayskal, far from the balmy waters that the Independence was skimming through, got somewhat the same idea and showed Reagan making the switch in a more graphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 27, 1967 | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...everything. One by one, she stuffed papers in her purse and took them home at lunchtime for a quick snap from Heinz's ready camera. In five years, the couple delivered copies of more than 1,500 secret documents to the Russians. The ministry has had to switch to a new diplomatic code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spies That Were Left Behind | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...with two Negroes, the skindiver and the man she really loves, a Brooks Brothers type who recites poetry and cherishes her femininity. Harold is more deeply nonplussed than he was by the notion of his wife's surrender to a typical minstrel man who is also a switch blade artist and a sexual athlete. Playgoers may be equally nonplussed by the belated stab at seriousness, especially after Friedman's nightlong skill at making race a laughing matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Broadway: Cuckold in a Panic | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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