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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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I am happy to have found good cause for my death and do not want to beg for my life. Give me the capital punishment but show mercy to the others." For Kim Jae Kyu, former Korean Central Intelligence Agency chief accused of murdering President Park Chung Hee last Oct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Acting Like Big Brother | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

What kind of people are spending for such things? And why? An immensely wealthy individual-a Getty, a Norton Simon, a Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

It has been only in the past decade or so that the big sales have been covered by the press as Events; the sums paid for art used to be buried in newspapers along with ship arrivals. Now, with the tremendous increases in fine arts prices and the expansion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

In court she spoke of him as "Mr. X." Privately, beauteous Soraya Khashoggi, 38, ex-wife of Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, confided to the judge at an Old Bailey trial of three detectives accused of blackmailing her, who the Member of Parliament was with whom she had enjoyed "more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Don't force the pieces, he warned himself. Store them away. Patience. But how to be patient when he had so little time? ... All his professional life, it seemed to Smiley, he had listened to similar verbal antics signalling supposedly great changes in Whitehall doctrine; signalling restraint, self-denial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Books, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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