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Word: certainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years I've lived here." That first packet apparently gave him a flying start on the rows of beans, peas, carrots, squash, turnips, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and comfrey, an herb he mainly uses for tea, that now fill his garden. Neighbors often help with the staples. "I like certain things," admits the bishop, and the word gets around. "But it is literally correct that I have not paid one penny for food for my house for the past four or five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spokane: A Pauperish Yet Princely Churchman | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...status needs; today that process is being depersonalized. The new services decide how they'll clean the house. As professionals, they don't have to listen to the housewife's way of doing things. It's more businesslike-they simply make a contract for a certain job to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Upstairs, Downstairs Revisited | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Soviet Arms Buildup. You say that you have slowed down and that we have not. This is not correct. We too have slowed the development of systems of missiles and planes; I cannot name them, but I'm certain that we have. All we are doing is catching up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Americanology | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Patients with advanced cases of certain cancers of the skin, bone, lymph system, breast, lung and bladder will receive interferon at Houston's M.D. Anderson; the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, both in Manhattan; Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute; the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Fateful Test | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...started her career as a Cockney skivvy, became for a time a mistress to the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), and wound up as the proprietor of the Cavendish Hotel, a slightly raffish establishment catering to the upper crust. Successes like Rosa's require bullheadedness and a certain animal cunning, qualities that Actress Gemma Jones mimes impressively. Her Louisa is a furious wren, an unbreakable China doll with a chin shaped like an eggshell and hard as a rock. "I just wanna be the best cook in England," she decides early and proceeds to bowl over the world that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: There's a Small Hotel | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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