Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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THE first nominations arrive in October, and by mid-December a steady stream of letters come in from readers enjoying a regular year-end pastime offering suggestions for TIME'S Man of the Year. This year the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts, fulfilling the promise of 1968's...
But TIME'S editors decided-as did a number of readers-that the events of 1969 transcended specific individuals. In a time of dissent and "confrontation," the most striking new factor was the emergence of the so-called "Silent Majority" as a powerfully assertive force in U.S. society. Mr...
To identify, understand and report their mood, TIME correspondents-notably Washington's Hugh Sidey, Chicago's Champ Clark, Los Angeles' Don Neff, Boston's Greg Wierzynski, San Francisco's Jesse Birnbaum and Atlanta's Roger Williams-interviewed Middle Americans across the land, as well...
This week's magazine presents another long-standing year-end feature: TIME'S All-America selection of the outstanding college football players for 1969. Many publications dealing with sport have an All-America roster, but we like to believe that TIME'S is the most authoritative. Instead...
What manner of men govern us? Voters choose only promises and premonitions, biographers provide conscientious rationales on the basis of what is vouchsafed them by the reticent subject or the partially informed intimate. But Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his TV interlocution with Walter Cronkite, gave as full a rendition as...