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Word: advertent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their feet. The ground was slipping out from under Americans -- to foreign investors, to revenue collection that has become a vast servicing of our debt, to cold war commitments that do not exude power but exhaust it, to involuntary and unconfessed curtailments of our postwar imperial mission. Who could advert to these amid the smoke of muskets and the feeble blaze of opposed "likabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Populist | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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