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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought of moving away, although her car was looted a second time and rocks later were thrown at her house. She remained curiously unshaken, never bothering to turn on her expensive burglar alarm system, and merely replacing a broken window with a plastic sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can't Go Home Again | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...lipsticks are lined up like little bombs, or phalli, viz, any Xaviera Hollander column in Penthouse. The pop-anthropologists say that the lips are secondary sex organs, turning lightly the fancy of young men to less public parts of the body; setting off the subliminal alarm of desire...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...Living in Greenough was an adjustment," Gauthier said. "There was no one to wake you up after the alarm clock went off. This year I'm putting a lot more effort into swimming...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Jack Gauthier: | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Says Cadet Denise Dawson, in her fourth year at the Point: "As soon as a guy is in the room it's like a little alarm sounds, and everybody has to walk past the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dating at West Point | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...mission, it took on some of the appearances of a state visit. She was greeted at Bangkok airport by Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Premier Kriangsak Chomanan, and a slew of Cabinet ministers. Responding to a welcoming speech by the Premier, she said that Americans were "filled with alarm" over the thought "that the Cambodian people are facing extinction as a result of war and famine." The next day, at high tea with the royal family at their palace in northeastern Thailand, she handed Queen Sirikit a check for $100,000 to help pay for medical supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: A Devastating Trip | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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