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Word: auge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andy Young resigned [Aug. 27] with grace despite tremendous pressure. Two years from now when a battle-weary Israel finally sits down with the P.L.O. at the negotiating table, the framed picture of St. Andrew will beam down from the wall. People will then remember August 1979 and say, "Ah, that was his finest hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...until now I have considered myself a feminist. But after reading about groups like "Women Against Pornography" [Aug. 27], I do not want to be identified as a feminist any longer. These women are undermining what feminism is all about: equal rights-which includes free speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...photo caption "Philadelphia police in action" [Aug. 27] is misleading and unfair. Philadelphia-area readers may know that a police officer was shot dead only moments before; those in Des Moines or Seattle will think, "So that's the Philadelphia police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...widespread disregard of income tax laws in the 1970s [Aug. 20] is reminiscent of the widespread disregard of Prohibition laws in the 1920s. In each case ordinary citizens rebelled against unreasonable laws. The "connivers and chiselers" are not the citizens who are striving for economic survival, but the politicians whose inflationary policies and unfair tax laws have eroded the real income of working people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...accept the fact that Benji is not a Doberperson pinscher or a Gerperson shepherd [Aug. 20], but your chauvinism is revealed when you say he is named "co-chairperson of a humans' charity committee." Humans? Shame on you. Why not hupersons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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