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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn't easy to get another one. So naturally, when I came up to the plate lefthanded, they made me switch over. That's really how it happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Keeping Up with Jones | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...last year has seen a change in University attitudes toward the surrounding communities--a switch from an aloof posture to be emphasizing an active involvement to aid Cambridge and Boston. But the change is not necessarily definitive; it could be reversed if the problems created by the new position seem to be greater than those arising in the past. Only time will tell if the various segments, of the University-including the Corporation, faculty, and students alike--will retain their new-found enthusiasm for aiding the community

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard In Its Cities--The Housing Crisis | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...people strongly in the direction of what a radical romantic believes to be the right decisions. This raisse a fierce moral problem: there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my very rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument; stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed out of him; if it's true for him he should know...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I Am Frightened (Yellow) | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...alive and out of,jail when I'm 30, we'll see what happens." Even if he manages to come to a decision then, the chances are that he will not stay put. It is estimated that more than half the present June graduates will switch jobs at least once in the first five years out of college, a mobility without precedent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: COURAGE AND CONFUSION IN CHOOSING A CAREER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Lowe is sure that the company will gain. He figures that for every executive who keels over too soon, the company must spend twice his annual salary training a replacement. Additional savings are expected from slimmer expense accounts, since traveling executives can be expected to switch from steak and Scotch to Metrecal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: How to Stop from Going to Pot | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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