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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quote attributed to me, "A Cadillac may be a very fine car to drive, but it would be uneconomical to say we're dedicated to buying Cadillacs for every person in our society," lends itself to the cynical misinterpretation that good psychotherapy is too expensive for the average person. On the contrary, it is too expensive for society not to provide good psychiatric care for all who need it. Failure to do so results in far greater indirect costs to society in terms of increased medical expenses, absenteeism, child abuse, delinquency, crime and alcoholism, among other problems. The shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1979 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Hilde Graf was watching TV last week in her Wichita Falls, Texas, home when a tornado warning flashed on the screen. She rushed to a window and spotted a huge cloud darkening the horizon. With the twister bearing down at about 70 m.p.h., she jumped into her car and raced to the Sikes shopping mall, which she thought had a basement storm shelter. But there was no shelter at the mall, and Graf, along with hundreds of shoppers, cowered on the concrete floors of the mall's stores as the storm struck and merchandise and broken glass hurtled like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carnage in Tornado Alley | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

While Glenn's wife waited in the car, Glenn and the President "went at it hammer and tongs," in Glenn's words. Said Glenn: "I have never talked to a President that way before and no President has talked that way to me before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Pepper for SALT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...their death on charges of plotting counterrevolutionary activities. Justice was rough, swift and harsh. Wit nesses were summoned at the discretion of the courts, defendants were refused the right of counsel, and verdicts were limited to acquittal or death. The rattle of the tumbrels, the two-wheeled carts that car ried the doomed through the streets to the guillotine, became a familiar sound in French cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Reign of Terror | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...brand-new Butler building surrounded by steel of high quality folded at ninety degree angles. The only thing prettier than ladies as an I-beam painted bright yellow. I told 'em I wanted a big door. A big door in front where a girl could hide her car if she wanted to evade the gaze of her husband the rat poison salesman. You ever been out with a ratpoison salesman? They are fine fellows with little red eyes...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Not-So-Great Days | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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