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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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> At Manhattanville College (Purchase, N.Y.), 18 black students staged a sit-in at the main classroom building for the entire week. They wanted the Catholic women's school, which includes four Kennedys (Ethel, Jean, Eunice and Joan) among its alumnae, to increase its black students and faculty, hire a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Communiqu | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

When Hedda Gabler's fatal pistol shot rang out offstage on opening night, a young woman in the second row quivered as if the bullet had entered her body, and the only sounds that those sitting near her heard thereafter, except for the last lines of the play, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Modern Woman's Hedda | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Western scientists were frankly skeptical. Russian Chemists N. Fedyakin and Boris Deryagin claimed to have produced a mysterious new substance, a form of water that was so stable it boiled only at about 1,000°F., or five times the boiling temperature of natural water. It did not evaporate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unnatural Water | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Beginning early this year, Lippincott and co-workers from the university and the National Bureau of Standards analyzed samples of polywater with the aid of laser beams and one of the world's two double-beam microscope spectrometers. They found that the chemical bonds between polywaters hydrogen and oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unnatural Water | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

If at a given moment, says Stone, all 750 million Chinese obeyed a command to jump from 6½-ft. platforms, they could constitute a "geophysical weapon." How? Assuming that the average Chinese weighs 110 lbs., he calculates, the energy released by this great leap downward would be equivalent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Leap Downward | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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