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Word: ability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...troubled times. Americans should not be nostalgic for a lost, largely illusory and certainly irretrievable tune when the U.S. always got its way in the world. The more worthy and certainly more salutary objects of nostalgia are a mood of cautious optimism and a can-do faith in American abil ities. That mood and that faith can be restored. Once restored, they will help greatly hi defining a new role for America as a super power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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