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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luckily, my roommate Meredith has no idea what she's going to do about her T-thing. So when I need sympathy, I know who to call...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: It's Time for the T-Thing | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

...thinks this proves that Gore, who is not trying to make raunch in rock illegal, cannot even ask distributors to label it. Anything goes, as long as it's legal. The odd consequence of this argument would be a drastic narrowing of the freedom of speech. One could not call into question anything that was not against the law -- including, for instance, racist speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Censure | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Almost from the beginning, New Delhi has argued that India is entitled to control all of Kashmir. Islamabad's claim is more complex: besides supporting a 1949 U.N. call for a plebiscite on Kashmir's future, Pakistan has marshaled what it considers proof that it has all along controlled the area from NJ 9842 to the Karakoram Pass on the Chinese border. Islamabad cites circumstantial evidence, like the fact that mountaineering expeditions for years sought Pakistan's permission to enter the region, and its agreement to cede some of the territory to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Himalayas War at the Top Of the World | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...base camps on the glaciers. Soldiers spend six weeks acclimatizing to the torturous conditions, learning ice climbing and winter survival. From the camps, men fan out to front-line positions in snow-choked mountain passes. They take turns watching for movement on the other side -- and the opportunity to call in artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Himalayas War at the Top Of the World | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...form of safe sex. Over the telephone or a restaurant table, a man and a woman expose their emotions, exchange seminal fears and desires, make each other laugh and sob -- all without touching any organ but the heart. Talk is the consummation devoutly to be wished; no wonder they call it intercourse. It is confession without penance, therapy on the cheap. It is also, in the right mouths, the last civilized popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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