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Word: accounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly did him in. They invested in a nightclub, and he gave her a '76 Pacer, "TV and sound" equipment, "a wardrobe worth thousands," a $7,500 bond and a $9,000 bank account. He also bought her brother a new truck and her mother a color-television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rich Man, Poor Man | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...Israelis were not behind it, who was? According to one account circulating in Paris last week, the DST had sent out a tracer to Western intelligence agencies at the time the Palestinians requested their visas. The CIA, followed by the British and the Israelis, confirmed that Raji was Abu Daoud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: L'Affaire Daoud: Too Hot to Handle | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Much of the regulatory ire is aimed at ships of foreign registry, which account for more than 95% of U.S. tanker traffic. The maritime union chiefs, who never pass up an opportunity to attack the foreign flagships-which have virtually taken over the American oil trade because high U.S. labor costs have all but priced U.S.-flag tankers out of the market-have been particularly vocal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Demolition Derby at Sea | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...comic peak with the interpolated segment called New-Found-Land. Two Foreign Service officers enter the temporarily deserted committee room to discuss an American's application for British naturalization. The elder (Humphrey Davis) is a doddering relict from World War I who embarks on an excruciatingly elongated, hilarious account of how he once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains every old movie cliche, engrained national myth, sentimental hyperbole and travel-brochure bait ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unstoppable Stoppard | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...replied Fundamentalist Presbyterian Carl Mclntire. In his Christian Beacon, he offered an ingenious exegesis of the Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Did Jesus Drink Wine? | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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