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Word: cliff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary was obliged to pick places to which he could safely go-not for reasons of security but of domestic politics. That ruled out China, the Soviet Union or the Middle East, where Kissinger's presence might inadvertently have an adverse effect on President Ford's cliff-hanging struggle for the Republican nomination. So, however reluctantly, the Secretary picked an itinerary where the sailing should have been smooth: Britain, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, France and The Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Henry's Last Hurrah? | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...Jimmy Cliff. The star of "The Harder They Come" in what's billed as his only New England performance, Saturday, August 28 at The Music Inn in Lenox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...Harder They Come Now that reggae has made the cover of the Rolling Stone and is no longer the exclusive province of the chic, maybe this Jimmy Cliff "country hick to shantytown to bigtime to rubout" regional novel of a flick will make it beyond the cult who love it already. You can see it if you really want...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Film | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...well rekindle congressional interest in setting up a federal body to insure insurers the way the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guarantees the safety of bank deposits. Efforts to set up such a backstopping scheme have never made much headway, but the largest failure in insurance history-or even a cliff-hanging escape-would dramatize the need as nothing else has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: GEICO at the Brink | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...Seton's bus. "The answer to the problem of alienation, to the difficulties of building a sense of community," she writes, "may be to put people on buses." It's not a bad way to keep an amiable but wobbling novel from going over a Sicilian cliff, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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