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Word: writting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zapata did become more sophisticated. Men with grander schemes and more education became his aides and wrote grand statements for him to sign. He reached stages of exhaustion and hope when he was willing to have his subordinates compromise the simple, campesino-oriented "Plan de Ayala" which was Holy Writ to the Zapatistas. But personally, Zapata tended to avoid important parleys, as though aware that in the eyes of him fighting men any dealing was dishonest dealing, all overt politics dirty politics. That be never grew political may appear to be a tribute to Zapata's revolutionary purity...

Author: By Carter Wilson, | Title: Zapata and the Mexican Revolution | 3/19/1969 | See Source »

...light, Reasoner said in an interview last week: "I think light is just as much a part of news as heavy. What I resent is the implication that merely because you see something funny, you are going to take that attitude toward everything." He explains that when he started writ ing his quips, "I wouldn't guarantee to write one every day. Sometimes the news just isn't funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Television: Jan. 10, 1969 | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...ventured a prediction for the future of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: "If we and the Soviet Union escape war in the next 30 years, we'll both wind up practically with the same economic system. I emphasize the word economic. It will be the welfare state writ large. I hope we won't lose our democracy, and I hope Russia will get more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AN AMERICAN CONSCIENCE | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...Judge Beer at least, the argument made eminent sense. He affirmed the judges' right to sue and also gave them everything that they had asked for. The plaintiffs won a writ of mandamus that will compel the county to provide for leven more probation officers, eight more clerks, and one judicial assistant at a combined cost in salaries of at least $193,000 a year. The order may become a major precedent. For judges elsewhere may decide that the way to get more staff is to challenge from the other side of the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: The Other Side of the Bench | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...possibility of a regal drama is lost amidst this ragged anthology of styles and postures. In theatrical tradition, the fortunes of king and queen were the human situation writ large. In Goldman's hands, the process is reversed; Henry and Eleanor are reduced to a TV-sized version of the sovereigns next door, their epic struggles shrunk to sitch-com squabbles, and their children mere refractions of their mean spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Sovereigns Next Door | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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