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September 2009

Happy Birthday 1969

Now that the hoopla over the 40th anniversary of Woodstock’s Three Days of Peace and Music has died down, let’s take a look at a few of the 174 words that first entered print that year (if not that summer):

Interested in the full list? Choose the Collegiate as your source, click on Advanced Search, then type the year in question into the Date box and hit Search.

  • ageism
  • beggar-thy-neighbor
  • conceptual art
  • decriminalize
  • ecocatastrophe
  • fat farm
  • global warming
  • gun control
  • Hare Krishna
  • high tech
  • homophobia
  • laid-back
  • limousine liberal
  • Martin Luther King Day
  • microchip
  • muscle car
  • peace sign
  • plate tectonics
  • rip-off
  • roadie
  • spaghetti western
  • straight arrow
  • support group
  • surround sound
  • tip of the iceberg


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