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Word: thing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranking of urgent domestic priorities, dealing with inflation is clearly first. For the moment at least, it is more urgent than even the task of providing urban housing or filling other social needs. For that reason, probably the last thing the U.S. needs right now is a tax cut, however popular the idea. A cut would stimulate consumer spending, probably deny the Nixon Administration a budget surplus as a means of cooling off the economy, and throw the whole burden of combatting inflation onto a continued tight-money policy-to the distress of both home buyers and businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: The Christmas Tree Bill | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

PART of the mystique and the attraction of the hippie movement has always been its invitation to freedom. It beckons young people out of the tense, structured workaday world to a life where each can do "his own thing." The movement has flowered and spread across the U.S. and to many parts of the world. It has drawn all sorts of people: the rebellious, the lonely, the poets, the disaffected, and worse. Some two years ago, says Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, a close student of the phenomenon, criminals and psychotics began infiltrating the scene. They were readily accepted, as anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hippies and Violence | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...them myself. But not so well, of course." The divorced heiress followed Newley's stage show all the way to Toronto, indicating more than artistic admiration. Newley, who is in the midst of divorce proceedings, allowed gallantly: "The very fact that she is here is a most beautiful thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Schroeder said that one yurt is enough for him, and that he has no plans to build any others. "It's not the kind of thing you can impose on anyone," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yurt Sprouts at Radcliffe Yard | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...Next thing I knew. Dave Powlison had won the 1000-free with no trouble whatsoever, and I wondered why Army had given so little challenge. But the next event was great. It was the 200-free, a match up of two guys-Toby Gerhart and Army's Jack Frink-who had had a really close race in the same event last year, when Frink won by 0.2 seconds...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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