Word: used
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...word derives from the Arabic hash-shashin, "those who use hashish." At the time of the Crusades, a secret sect of the Mohammedan Ismailians employed terrorists while they were ritually high on hashish, which is similar to marijuana...
There is a grim possibility that yet another candidate will become a target. What to do? Stop crowd contact, use sealed cars, exploit TV to the exclusion of almost every other campaign tactic? In the Los Angeles aftermath, a stricken Eugene McCarthy pondered: "Maybe we should do it in a different way. Maybe we should have the English system of having the Cabinet choose the President. There must be some other way." But most politicians-including highly vulnerable Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Hubert Humphrey and John Lindsay-emphatically veto such suggestions. If a candidate cannot mingle with crowds, said Rockefeller...
Naming a thoroughbred race horse is a delicate and demanding task. Rules of the Jockey Club-racing's all-purpose arbiter-require that the monicker contain no more than 18 letters, and that it not duplicate one of the 150,000 names now in use, or, for that matter, one used at any time during the past 15 years. With few exceptions, it cannot be the name of a commercial product or of an illustrious (or notorious) person living or dead. It cannot be a copyrighted name-say of a book, play, movie, song or magazine. It cannot...
...reasons that the university became the target are not too hard to see. There was a rational progression to it all. The Dow sit-ins of the fall protested first the corporation's manufacture of napalm, and then the university's sanction of it by allowing Dow to use university facilities to recruit future napalm-makers...
Columbia's problem is the American problem in miniature--the inability to provide answers to widespread social needs and the use of the military to' protect the authorities against the people...