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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little uneasy. We have no handle on this one yet. Was it aging metal in a high-time machine? Was it stress? And what kind of stress? Was it quality control of the metal? And if we find out, what kind of fix can we ask to have made? We don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Debacle of the DC-10 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Sunday morning Carter will rejoin Brezhnev at the somber 19th century Soviet embassy for 31/2 hrs. more of talks. Carter intends to ask for Soviet cooperation in the Middle East and southern Africa, but he harbors no illusions that Brezhnev will go along with U.S. strategy in those troubled areas. The President also plans to raise some arms-related issues, including a freeze on anti-satellite weapons, restraints on conventional arms sales, a ban on chemical warfare and a new effort to invigorate the stalled M.B.F.R. talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On to the Summit in Vienna | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...ask the question: How would the world change if SALT II failed or were not ratified on the American side? I have no doubt that the world would lapse back not only into a full-scale arms race between the East and West but also into another cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Helmut Schmidt | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...printed there last week all you need is love-and $18,240. That's what the ex-Beatle, who is now 38 and last released an album in 1975, paid for a full-page ad billed as "A Love Letter from John and Yoko to People Who Ask Us What, When and Why." He and his wife take five paragraphs to bring a presumably breathless world up to date on how the Lennon family is faring in Manhattan. The couple have been conducting a "Spring Cleaning of our minds," and report that "the things we have tried to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 11, 1979 | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...definite friend to Anthea and injury or no injury, I'm going to add insult to it." Back home in Birmingham, Wife Anthea, a study in gray, feeds her goldfish and solaces herself with boring novels. "Everyone abroad, except me," she complains. "No wonder people ask me, where is my sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Venetian Affair | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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