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Word: clingingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the person most responsible for the emotional impact of the disaster is the one known at first simply as "the man in the water." (Balding, probably in his 50s, an extravagant mustache.) He was seen clinging with five other survivors to the tail section of the airplane. This man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Man in the Water | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Brett Fromson graduated from Stanford in 1976 and decided immediately to ply his economics skills in the nation's capital. His book, Running and Fighting, recounts a year of successes and disappointments as an entry level aide in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Fromson observed carefully for someone...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Workaday Washington | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Lore Segal is responsible for fluent translations of such fairy tales. Her original composition shows how closely she has studied the source. In her folkloric The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck (Pantheon; $8.95), the protagonist is the kind of grandmother who makes worry a vocation. She finds trouble everywhere in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World Charged with Miracles | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

At first, Louise looks like a prettier, more cunning version of Kane's Susan Alexander. She has left her husband and come East to make her own way as a writer, but to the socialists and socialites of New York City, she is just Jack's dancing partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Go On | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

McHale came off the bench with the Celtics clinging to a 94-93 lead and proceeded to score eight of Boston's next twelve points to boost the Celtic lead to 104-97, with just two minutes remaining.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics Down Sixers, 111-103, Grab First in Atlantic Division | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

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