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Word: virginia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIRGINIA HEWEY Taunton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1969 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Dirty and Clean. By his own estimate, Bach has survived a few thousand fights with his own wife of 28 years and observed at least 20,000 more between his patients. The experience has made him wary of what he calls "Virginia Woolf" fighters. At their worst, they specialize in the delights of "carom-fighting" (jabbing at a spouse by mocking his religion or his child by a former marriage), "hit and run" (saying "You made me lose my appetite" in the middle of dinner), and "psychoanalysis" ("Your childhood was more pathogenic than mine, you poor thing!"). Though less neurotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage: Fight Together, Stay Together | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...VIRGINIA U. PROUT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

President Nixon's suggestion that "preventive detention" would be one good remedy for crime in the District of Columbia met with sharply divided reaction on Capitol Hill. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd applauded the idea of pretrial jailing of accused criminals thought likely to break the law while out on bail. "Unless we have a safe society," said Byrd, "we are not going to have a free society." But North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin Jr., a member of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee and usually no supporter of libertarian causes, was incensed. Preventive detention, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bail: Preventive Detention | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Little Chance. Now the beleaguered agency has a new chief, the first woman ever to boss a U.S. regulatory commission. She is Virginia Mae Brown, 45, a lively brunette and loyal Democrat who was appointed to the eleven-member commission in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson. Having succeeded to the ICC's annually rotating chairmanship this year, she leads a staff of 1,784 that processes about 6,000 cases a year. "Peaches" Brown, as the ICC's $29,500-a-year chairman is known, also manages to take care of two children and make frequent trips home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: New Scenery for the ICC | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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