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Word: whitlam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to Gorton's unquestioning support for American policy in Viet Nam, the Laborites made it clear that they would pull all 8,000 Aussie troops out of Viet Nam by June-and out of Southeast Asia reasonably soon. Labor Leader Gough Whitlam, 53, laid out a program of social reforms, including a free health scheme and free university education at a cost of $15.6 million a year, and an emergency school grant of $112 million to cover immediate needs. His emphasis on domestic issues, which normally take second place in Australian elections to foreign affairs, appealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Rebuke to a High Flyer | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Poor Atalanta. She doesn't want to marry anybody, ever. She doesn't even want to stay at the College of Vestal Virgins, as the Dean (Nick Whitlam) keeps urging. No, Atalanta wants to be a famous athlete, and most any day you'll find her practicing the various track and field events she plans to enter in the next Olympiad...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: A Hit and A Myth | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...best of all on opening night was Nick Whitlam as the head Vestal, a booming games mistress who almost, but not quite, succeeds in establishing military discipline over her violent sexual frustrations. With a technique born of fastidious hard-sell he leads the chorus through the show's finest numbers, You're Only A Virgin Once and the kick line, Love Me, Love My Cult. Here, Steve Kaplan's lyrics, by the by, are all things wonderful, and one forgives and forgets his occasional carelessness in other parts of the production...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: A Hit and A Myth | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...this is very sad. For individual performances by many members of the cast demonstrated what an enjoyable thing a Pudding show can be. First on anyone's list must come Nick Whitlam and Tony Fingleton. Their "Career Girls" number was the best of the night, and they had good moments in their other roles as girl friends and undertakers...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Right Up Your Alley | 3/15/1966 | See Source »

...freestyle for the third Crimson sweep, and Henry Whelchel led Al Lincoln to the finish in the backstroke. The only race in which a Brown swimmer beat a Harvard swimmer at all was the breastroke. Harvard's Bob Corris swam by Brown's Tom Wilder and Nick Whitlam took third for the varsity...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Swimmers Glide Past Brown, 70-24; Bill Shrout Breaks Another Record | 1/11/1965 | See Source »

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