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Word: yourselfer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Great decisions, if they are to be good decisions, must be made coolly; and if you respond in hot blood, you cannot make good decisions. And I like a clean room. This desk is always clean. Of course, if I'm writing a speech, I'm surrounded by a pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Private World of Richard Nixon | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

"I have an absolute rule: I refuse to make decisions that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decisions. Don't let your mind become cluttered with trivia. Don't let yourself become the issue."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Private World of Richard Nixon | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

"I usually bring a briefcase over here and read in the evening. I often read offbeat things selected for me that range from the National Review to the New Republic, the Observer or the so-called little magazines. But if I have to concentrate on composition, I work in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Private World of Richard Nixon | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

MY dear Abdullah, I am here," read the message to the general in beleaguered Dacca. "The game is up. I suggest you give yourself up to me and I'll look after you." The author of that soothing appeal was India's Major General Gandharv Nagra. The recipient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: India: Easy Victory, Uneasy Peace | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

When scoffers tell Dave Kilbourne, a 31 year-old Californian, to go fly a kite, he is only too happy to oblige. He flies over them in a delta winged kite that looks like a large version of a child's paper dart. "My family all think I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Taking a Flyer | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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