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Word: whitely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phrase "My country right or wrong" sounds very hollow in view of the American war atrocities at My Lai. The innocent, helpless civilians so brutally murdered there are another testimony to the fact that "liberty and justice for all" exist only if one happens to be American, wealthy and white. The "great silent majority" must work together morally for those values and ideals that were once held in such high esteem...

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

...made as a matter of course. Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya and is now a Rand Corp. consultant, recently returned to Viet Nam to sound out the situation for President Nixon. He told the President last week, says a White House official, "that things felt much better and smelled much better over there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: THE NEW, UNDERGROUND OPTIMISM | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...compromise, raising exemptions more gradually and with far less inflationary effect. But he failed to win the support of the Administration. When the Senate spurned Percy's amendment, Minority Leader Hugh Scott angrily took to the floor to denounce political blundering by the Treasury and, implicitly, by the White House. "The Treasury," he said, "has gone down to a resounding and, I suppose, glorious defeat. I do hope that my Administration will listen the next time we try to advise them that legislatively we understand more about tactics and strategy than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: The Christmas Tree Bill | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health was going to be different from other Government-sponsored meetings in the past, promised Richard Nixon. This time, he said, there would be action, not just talk. But many of the 3,000 delegates gathered last week in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel were not convinced. With its 26 study groups, eight task forces and diffuse agenda, the massive meeting lacked coherence. The urgency and anger felt by the representatives of the poor often seemed in danger of drowning in a sea of professional expertise. Yet out of the potential chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poverty: Food as the First Priority | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...buck knife, with about a twelve-inch blade, and he asked us if we would like to kill him, just to prove he couldn't die." Manson, said the ranchman, read deeply in Oriental theology, and believed in reincarnation and the insignificance of individual lives. Manson, who is white, "felt the Establishment was the white man. and his karma was to catch up with everybody and shoot all the pigs he saw for, like, enslaving the Negro. It wasn't wrong to kill the pigs, to slash them down with a knife, because they were destroying the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE DEMON OF DEATH VALLEY | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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