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Word: wishfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile the south, where university classes were suspended for a week to calm rioting students, was hastily visited by a government envoy. Gist of his message: for the time being, the southerners can still correspond with the capital, if they wish, in the associate language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Hindi Imposition | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

Banana Peel has a plot as tricky as its title. Named after a race horse, this free French comedy of crime and blandishment gives the beast a mere nod during the opening credits, then plunges into an orgy of intrigues on a pretty fast track. Viewers may occasionally wish they had a pony to keep abreast of what is happening. But they will never lose interest, thanks to two shrewd performers, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jeanne Moreau, under direction from Marcel Ophuls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sure-Footed Fleecing | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...stranded on a desert island, have completely forgotten the value of the earth's mass. Desirous of launching a geodisic earth satellite into orbit, you wish to know this quantity accurately. Having only a fully equipped physics laboratory at hand, describe how you would be about measuring the earth's mass. Answer this intriguing question concisely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Questions Promote Humility; E.g., 'Discuss Attic Greek Vowels' | 1/27/1965 | See Source »

...times of change, the course must be altered more than once. Visser 't Hooft is a leader who knows how to adapt to all these new situations." With the meeting hopelessly dead locked, the central committee created a nominating committee to check out new candidates - including, if they wish, Patrick Rodger. Visser 't Hooft, who wants to retire, will stay on until his successor is found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World Council: Visser 't Hooft Stays | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Born. To Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, 39, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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