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Word: arens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have on my mind, the hideous nuclear arms race. He is not afraid to show his heart in the midst of a heartless world, a world of executioners, of mannequins and robots who coldly calculate the extinction of human beings. The great powers turn their backs. They say, "Aren't these fine sentiments?" But John Paul spoke to people, not to governments ... This is not to say that he sees the mote in his own eye. His views of women are old fashioned, and they are probably not going to change. We can't have apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: Offering an American Perspective | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...care of them best has the key." In addition to cold drinks, she and her workers will offer them umbrellas and seats. She boasted: "We have plenty of buses, all air conditioned." Said she of her side's supporters: "Sure there's dissatisfaction with Carter, but people aren't ready to switch. There are underlying bad feelings about Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing the Florida Game | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Seabrook has this moldy strip of hamburger restaurants and Hawaiian motif motels and shopping centers, and that's where you march now. Soon you're at the main gate, and despite the copters, there aren't any police there, just two security guards. After a couple of minutes the state police and the Guard come screaming over, and they don't know for sure that this demonstration is legal and peaceful and what the heck, you seem to be blocking Route 1, so the firehoses get turned on again. But people know by now not to fear the portable hoses...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...kind of overprotectiveness irritates many of the women. Says Kathleen Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity: "Your male NCOS aren't comfortable talking about female physiology. The effect is to err on the side of being extremely cautious and remove them from danger. It's the women who fight to stay on duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Military Is Pregnant | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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