Word: thirdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suggested no escape plan for the average CEBUS victim. Mine is workable, simple, and guaranteed to trim the waistline while liberating the mind from ugh-plugs. For women, the average battery of three commercials per station break allows time for any of the following: washing and rinsing about one-third of the dinner dishes, emptying trash, sorting or putting away the wash, pressing any two wash-and-wear items, filling the coffeepot for the next morning, feeding any household pet. For men: finding the car keys, tucking in the children, taking trash out, balancing checkbook, having brief argument with wife...
...almost overwhelmingly strong favorites to be nominated, but the prospect fails to excite millions of voters in their own parties and beyond. The thought of having to choose between them leads some citizens to say that they will not vote. Others say that they will support George Wallace's third party on the right, or encourage a fourth party on the left, or vote only with reluctance for the major parties. Quips Chicago Columnist Virginia Kay: "Nineteen sixty-eight may go on record as the year they gave an election and nobody came...
...legs were encased in armored trousering when he was led, handcuffed, from a 61-ton armored van into Shelby County jail at dawn. A score of deputies with riot guns formed a defensive perimeter. Ray was hustled to an air-conditioned cell on the jail's third floor. Heavy steel plates block cell windows. Closed-circuit television cameras monitor all movements. Prison trusties who ran elevators have been replaced by sheriff's officers...
That shape has been changing, of course, for 20 years. The Soviets, in effect, abandoned the Marxist dream of total, supranational Communism with the dissolution of the Third International in 1943. Five years later, on a gamble that Stalin would not risk U.S. atomic firepower by intervening, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito took the first successful walk from Moscow. The Kremlin successfully stamped out Hungary's uprising in 1956, but Tito has been followed in this decade by the puritanical Chinese and their sympathizers in Albania, then by Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who wanted to pursue...
...rains ended a six-month drought that had ravaged Uruguay's cattle and sheep, a chief source of income, and badly damaged the economy. Rebellious students who had seized the University of Montevideo and held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month ended without Pacheco Areco's having had to use emergency measures. The President still needs, however, all the help he can get: he has set out to tighten the belt of a country that is used to wearing it very loose...