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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official dinner in Hanoi. The guests included the top French, Chinese and British commanders and officials. White, the most junior officer and the only American, was seated next to Ho. "Mr. President," White whispered to Ho, "I think there is some resentment over the seating arrangements." "Yes," replied Ho, "I can see that. But whom else could I talk to?" Plainly, Ho still thought of Americans as people he could talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE LEGACY OF HO CHI MINH | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

Austere Standard. Mies' vocabulary is one of yes and no, of the perfect and the imperfect. There is little room for adjectives or adverbs, and in the face of this unrelenting demand, lesser architects boggle or, refusing the challenge completely, invent a different vocabulary of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mies van der Rohe: Disciplinarian for a Confused Age | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...Yes, Apollo 11 was indeed a triumph of middle America. It showed what we and our values can create. That's one reason some of our liberal-radical detractors hate and fear the space program. They regard us of middle America as so many cows, to be milked without limit for their social programs. To keep us docile, they try to make us feel guilty for crimes we didn't commit, racial hatreds we don't feel (some of us are black too), poverty we didn't create. Apollo 11 smashed through that unearned guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...cover and is already starring in her first film, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Business Like This? Has he already proposed marriage? asked reporters. "Not now-maybe later," replied Hugh. But it was "a serious relationship" all the same. Well, would she say yes if he did ask? the newsmen asked Barbara. Said she with a smile: "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...then there was one of those god-awful family get-togethers--was it what's her face's wedding or cousin George's funeral (he was twenty-nine and died of fright)? Anyway, after fifteen minutes of kisses on the cheek and handshakes with good-natured (oh yes) ribbing about long hair and campus activism you realized the only way to survive was to get hopelessly drunk. And so, mellow and impish, you explained to your maiden aunt that it would be great to do away with marriage because it would end all discussion about pre-marital sex, and that...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: On Talking to People Over Thirty | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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