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Word: ashe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks pointing up to the sky. The dull yellow and the ash-gray covered the earth and stretched like a mourning shawl toward the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: A View from the Villages | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

Beech, maple, ash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 12, 1970 | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...since the Bismarck has there been such a sea hunt. In the teeth of a gale that whipped the azure Mediterranean into an ash-gray cauldron of 20-foot waves, five Israeli-manned gunboats scooted to Haifa last week on a 3,000-mile dash from the northern French port of Cherbourg. At various points, they were tracked by French reconnaissance planes, an R.A.F. Canberra from Malta, Soviet tankers, the radar forests of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, television cameramen and even Italian fishermen. From a distance, the world watched with emotions ranging from amusement to outrage. In a twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel's Fugitive Flotilla | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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