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Word: thither (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, Peking was not above attempting some subversion of its own. Appealing to Moscow's East European satellites, the statement declared: "If a party cannot use its brains to think for itself, but instead is a party that parrots the words of others, runs hither and thither in response to the baton of certain persons abroad, such a party is incapable of leading the masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Now for the Main Event | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Then steered the white moth thither in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover's Quarrel With the World | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...Anti-Corn Law League, granddaddy of all Free Trade movements; its members used to insist that there were passages in the Bible which forecast the advent of Free Trade. (This passage, from Exodus, was especially popular: "Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; get you down thither, and buy for us from them, that we may live...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Labor and the Trade Bill | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Allee: Frere Johnny | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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