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Word: wanted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gosh! If the new feminists want to take on the world's work, let them go ahead. Next thing you know, they'll insist we men sleep in the mornings while they trudge off to support us. Then we'd have to care for an automated house, fuss with our kids, play poker afternoons and, I suppose, sympathize with them evenings while they attacked us sexually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...know what to do with them, don't you?' And I said 'Yes.' And he left and came back about ten minutes later, and said, 'How come you ain't killed them yet?' And I told him that I didn't think he wanted us to kill them, that he just wanted us to guard them. He said, 'No, I want them dead.' So he started shooting them. And he told me to start shooting. I poured about four clips [68 shots] into them. I might have killed 10 or 15 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...House Appropriations Committee and the Armed Services Committees of both houses plan hearings. The Saigon government issued a statement that My Lai amounted to "a normal act of war"?the pro forma response of a loyal ally and a government that does not want to add fuel to the considerable anti-Americanism of its population. But two committees of the South Vietnamese Senate have challenged the government and announced a joint investigation of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...deputy post commander, Colonel Talton Long, designing plans for the colonel's parking lot and working on an infantry museum project while he helps prepare the defense for his court-martial. One month ago Calley visited his ailing father, who now lives in a trailer park in Hialeah. "I want to help my boy, but I just don't know what to do," the senior Calley says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Order: "Man has been given his freedom to a greater extent than ever, and that's quite wrong. Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline. People say they want freedom; yet they tie themselves up completely with drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Warbler of Watergate | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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