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Word: brought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While about 60 per cent of the seniors in most Houses voted, Koivumaki said Dudley House brought the average down with a 10-per-cent turnout...

Author: By Richard P. Nagel, | Title: McNulty and Owens Win Elections for '80 Marshals | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...took another superb outlet pass from Dixon that brought Harvard to within one, 54-53, but on the next play Fleming picked up foul number four with 12:26 left, and McLaughlin had to shuffle bodies for the remainder of the game...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Texas Tops Cagers At Boston Garden | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

This is the loneliness of the long-shot candidacy. George Bush, 55, has lived this life for nearly two years, pursuing the presidency of the United States. He has traveled nearly half a million miles in 38 states, an effort that has brought him no higher than fourth in nationwide public opinion polls among Republicans. But in the past few weeks George Herbert Walker Bush has managed to shorten the odds considerably. The Republican field of ten candidates has plainly divided into the big four and the minor six. Bush is firmly part of that top rank, along with Ronald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: George Is Coming On Strong | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...regime. Most are children who were assigned to mobile work teams after their parents' murder by the Khmer Rouge. When questioned by refugee caseworkers, many said they did not miss their parents. Similarly, parents in the camp showed little or no interest in the children they brought with them to Thailand. In a makeshift maternity ward at Sakaew, a Red Cross volunteer, Midwife Judith Greenberg of Oakland, Calif, told Clark that the mothers appeared not to care whether their babies were born dead or alive. "Many of the exhausted and sick mothers don't hold their babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Pol Pot's Lifeless Zombies | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...that people had of portraiture as a form. For us, that appeal has largely vanished: artists like Munch, Kirchner and Giacometti have taught us to expect anything but social ease and confident display from the human head. The social portrait seems exhausted now, a cultural irrelevance. This fall has brought two exhibitions by American artists that underline the demise by recalling portraiture's vanished glories and suggesting its dubious status today. One is a retrospective of John Singer Sargent at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The other is a review of Andy Warhol's portraits, which opened last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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