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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until a man ran through a yield sign and severely damaged my car, I also held the attitude that insurance companies are apt to penalize the claimants [June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1978 | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...amazed, however, at the number of people who advised me to make claims for items beyond restoring my car. Even though I borrowed a car from a relative, I was told I should be paid for the use of another car. I was also told I should put in a claim for my suffering (I was paid for my doctor bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1978 | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...candles and rockets cannonaded across Versailles's famed formal gardens, one visitor secreted a time bomb in a cupboard in the chateau's south wing. The blast, which went off some time around 2 a.m., was verified by the police one half-hour later when a squad car made a routine check of the palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Napoleon Is Bombed at Versailles | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Like many fashionable Italians, Alessandro De Tomaso, owner of the Maserati car company, carries an elegant man's handbag dangling from a shoulder strap. But his bag is unusual in one respect. By slipping his hand through an open flap on the side, De Tomaso can quickly grab a .38 revolver that he keeps cradled inside. Says he: "It is just a normal hazard of business life in Italy today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: If You Give Up, They Win | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...morning a handlebar car was ready, too small a target for the Japanese artillery on the north bank of the Yellow River to shoot at. And thus, bundled in a soldier's padded robe, seated in the cold wind on an open pump-car, I traveled 30 miles that day as if I were a general reviewing his troops. But I was reviewing a famine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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