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Word: yearning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vilification and self-righteousness now made so manifest all about us again, as twenty years ago, by would-be exploiters. This former world is created and precariously maintained in all generations by civilized men, a world for which in the depths of our hearts I am sure we all yearn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey on 'The Big Lie' | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...Snow may yearn to be apocalyptic, like everybody else. But he really has very little to do with heaven and hell. Limbo is his territory, the area of half-victories and temporary defeats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lord of Limbo | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...vilification and self-righteousness now made so manifest all about us again, as twenty years ago, by would-be exploiters. This former world is created and precariously maintained in all generations by civilized men, a world for which in the depths of our hearts I am sure we all yearn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey on 'The Big Lie' | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...vilification and self-righteousness now made so manifest all about us again, as 20 years ago, by would-be exploiters. This former world is created and precariously maintained in all generations by civilized men, a world for which in the depths of our hearts I am sure we all yearn. What I have wanted to say to you today is simply that, in my view, as Harvard men you are called to serve that world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Voices of Commencement | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

Adults who yearn to clip the nation's longhairs keep running into a formidable obstacle: the U.S. Constitution. Take the school officials in Williams Bay, Wis., who insist that boys with shoulder-length locks distract other students from their studies. Last year the officials ordered two hairy boys, Thomas Breen, 17, and James Anton, 19, to get , haircuts or get expelled. Spurning both choices, the shaggy ones asked a federal district court to declare the order unconstitutional. When the court obliged, the would-be clippers continued their fight right up to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Hairy Victory | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

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