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Word: airing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything." For the physically active Americans, being forced to sit in chairs for up to 16 hours a day was almost torture. Only after Marine Security Guard Kevin Hermening had fallen sick and pleaded with the guards for fresh air were the hostages given two 10-min. periods a day outside the buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bound for Hours, Facing the Walls | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...might have been Walt Disney World, which lay just across a grimy interstate. Outside the hotel where the happening occurred, giant hot-air balloons wafted under a blazing autumn sun. Dixieland bands strutted down walkways, and characters in Indian headdresses, space-shuttle caps and Abe Lincoln garb wandered about. Under an Australian pine by a swimming pool, a stocky old gentleman in a rumpled blue suit discoursed on farm policy. He said his name was Harold Stassen and he was once again running for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cattle Show in Florida | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Dole airlifted in 700 red roses from North Carolina, which were passed out by his wife and daughter; and he procured a maroon, hot-air balloon. Bush got not one but two balloons and rode in one himself. He offered rides, but few delegates could summon the courage to accept. When South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler invited delegates on an early morning jog, Bush, taking his wife and boys along, ran farther in a separate jaunt and served breakfast afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cattle Show in Florida | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Keith Mahosky, 20, is a second classman at the U.S. Naval Academy who winks back when opportunity smiles. His latest chance came in a contest sponsored by WBKZ, a Baltimore radio station. The challenge was to identify ten songs and singers from excerpts of tunes played on the air. The winner would get $10,000 worth of gold and silver jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Naval Bombardment | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...palace post was wrong." And Callaghan added the icy comment: "I am bound to say that I think there has been a tendency to treat Mr. Blunt with kid gloves. Would Mr. Blunt have had the same treatment if he had been a humble corporal in the Royal Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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