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Word: christmases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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TWO WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had gone ice on him; the last cigarette in the house from before his arm went limp was floating around on top, shedding little brown slivers of tobacco that slid down...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately the rockabilly energy level dies down for side two, and Gordon resorts to a series of flaccid slow ballads--"It's Only Make Believe," "Wheel of Fortune," "I Just Met a Memory," and "Blue Christmas." It's well-known that slow numbers are totally worthless, except for high school...

Author: By Bromide Kush, | Title: Rock and Roll Neanderthal | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

"SALT by Christmas" was the slogan in Washington last fall, when the long stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Geneva showed promise. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott raced to synthesize five years of notes - replete with diplomatic circumlocutions and the technical jargon of weaponry - into a lucid history of SALT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 21, 1979 | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Vance came home exhausted, just in time for Christmas with his family?another Christmas without SALT. Ralph Earle and the permanent negotiators based in Geneva were ordered to go back to work until they resolved the remaining problems. Earle raised the July SS-18 test, plus the similar one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Who Conceded What to Whom | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

In those houses, Dr. Seuss has journeyed on beyond Spock to a place of honor in nurseries all over the world. The feeling is reciprocated. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, is a failed novelist who now believes that "adults are obsolete children and the hell with them." By devoting 41 books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of the Lorax Turns 75 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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