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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrible way that he did not mean or likely imagine, those words of Richard Nixon's came true last week as the nation grappled with the enormity of the massacre at My Lai. A young Army first lieutenant, William Laws Calley Jr., stood accused of slaying at least 109 Vietnamese civilians in the rural village in South Viet Nam, and at least 25 of his comrades in arms on that day in March 1968 are also being investigated. It will be for the courts-martial judges to determine whether Calley or anyone else is individually guilty. But that America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...nation in Larry Terrell. The senior captain has finished second to Nayar in the collegiate individual championships in the last two years. "If it weren't for Nayar, Larry would be the country's best collegiate player." Barnaby said many times last year. Now his prediction is true...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Harvard Squash Team Opens Defense of National Championship at Amherst | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...would be so easy to show the Harvard Club as several hundred men in dark suits. On the day I was there, it seemed to be true...

Author: By Julie E. Green, | Title: The Harvard Club Of New York City | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

That may be partly true, but Raquel is unique among sex queens in another respect. Harlow had her seamy affairs; Hayworth her prince; Monroe her outfielder and her playwright; Taylor her high-rolling entrepreneur, Debbie's crooner and Sybil's Welsh actor. By contrast, Raquel has two children by a former marriage to her high school sweetheart, and is presently wed to an inoffensive uncelebrity named Patrick Curtis. She does not flounce around studio sets in see-through blouses by day or boogaloo at the Factory by night. She does not smoke. She does not drink. She rarely entertains. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...must not complain, for a life dream has come true. I am in Hollywood, California, the source of all this century's legends. No pilgrim to Lourdes can experience what I know I shall experience once I have stepped into that magic world which has occupied all my waking thoughts for twenty years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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