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Word: wanted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else would call at nine-thirty on Sunday morning?" Martin wasn't being very pleasant; that was a good start. But Susan didn't know what to say to that question, so Martin asked another one: "What did you want, Susan...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...both admired and popular in high school, and I had the ability to succeed in those activities, but it's completely different at Harvard. There are too many activities with too many really talented people to give a status label to anything. You learn to do what you really want to do, and you forget pretty much about everybody else...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Brass Tacks The Freshman Dean's Office | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...sorry! Here you've worked three hours on these proteins, and I've destroyed them! Completely! I... I don't know what to say! Do you want to share my results? Oh, I just don't know how I could have done that... a whole lab, ruined...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Dylan himself was pleased by the concert. He came away from the concert feeling strong enough for a full-scale comeback in the U.S. Already he has announced a touring show with The Band, the superb Canadian country-rock group that backed him at Wight. "I want to try it again," he says. "It's what I do. It's my work." But clearly he will do it his way. Not playing up to the applause or offering flowery speeches about "how wonderful it is to be here." It is, in fact, not only Dylan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poet's Return: It's What I Do | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

Those who want to divine why French public administration is a marvel of codified precision and bureaucratic bungling will find 61 pages on the subject. There they will learn about the schools that produce the French Establishment, quirks of the Code Civil, the ratio of policemen per capita (one for every 347 people) and the 1949 decree that governs a concierge's weekly cleaning of a courtyard, "devoting one minute and a half per square meter for the first forty meters and thirty seconds per square meter for the remaining surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Croutons in the Soup | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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