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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Think about being stuck mostly motionlessly in downtown traffic for half an hour. This is a very terrible experience. Your mind can't wander because your purpose is being constantly minutely served: you inch forward. As a human animal you have no interest in this sort of activity. You are totally estranged from what you're doing. This is why cars have radios...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: In the Streets Cars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...next hour and a half they came dribbling slowly out of doors, the saddest first, into wine shops, into bars, the Harvard Pro, or just to wander around the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And at Harvard | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...however. Whole Earth Catalog is a tool. Wander through it, admire it, be sure to use it. The worlds resting in its pages are wide open for those ready for the adventure, but it will be worth nothing if it is not allowed to function as it is designed. It is a good thing: let it lead you on to better things...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: From the Shelf Whole Earth Catalog available from the Portola Institute, Inc., 1115 Merrill St., Menlo Park, Calif.: $8.00 p | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Police chased a band of demonstrators into the industrial sector of Cambridge south of Mass Ave., but left them to wander back to the M. I. T. student center...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Police Rout NAC Pickets In Protest at M. I. T. Lab | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...down and we finally entered the water, praying to the dead to pardon us." The men who were probing the shallow creek in a gorge south of Hue prayed for pardon because the dead had lain unburied for 19 months; according to Vietnamese belief, their souls are condemned to wander the earth as a result. In the creek, the search team found what it had been looking for-some 250 skulls and piles of bones. "The eyeholes were deep and black, and the water flowed over the ribs," said an American who was at the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE MASSACRE OF HUE | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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