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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Changing Morality: The Two Americas" and especially to the comparison "A doctor who refuses a house call to someone who is seriously ill is worse than a homosexual." I mean, what is the point? That doctors are better than homosexuals? What'if the doctor himself is a homosexual (take a TIME-Harris Poll on that one)? I mean to say the questions were so worded, the comparisons so ridiculous, that it is no wonder intelligent people are questioning the polls-and no wonder they've proved wrong time and time again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...take umbrage with your interpretation of conditions at Midway [June 6]. True, the accommodations might not please the jet set, but heads of state will be satisfied with good, middle-class American accommodations. Some of the reporters may have to sleep in barracks, but if it's good enough for the Navy . . . Gooney birds are a problem to the planes but a joy to normal human beings. They are beautiful and unafraid, good no-nonsense parents, and they offer lessons in tenacity and calm that some people of our country might well copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...only endorsed the proposal. I urged that Congress "take every vestige of politics out of our postal system." In addition, I urged a letter-writing campaign so that members of Congress will know that the people want postal reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...told TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm. "Why don't they pull us all out? Either that or decide to win this thing?" Still, despite his frustration, he realizes that matters are not quite that simple. "You can't blame Nixon a lot," he says. "He had to take on the war from Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Man's Battle | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...steadfast physician (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is able to set her straight. But-surprise-he digs Aristotle too. That isn't much of a punch line, but then, The Libertine isn't much of a joke. This slick little bit of Italian pornography has enough brains not to take itself seriously, but lacks the wit to make it anything more than a painless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brains Without Wit | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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