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Word: conveyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates from organized labor, to give their boss a badly needed boost in the opinion polls. Says one Democratic National Committee official: "We have a real opportunity to bring Mondale within five points of Reagan after the convention." That may be wishful thinking, but a well-managed convention could convey the take-charge image that Mondale has failed to project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aiming for a good show | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...have suffered constant pain for almost a decade. You put in a nutshell the feeling and emotions I can only convey, and even then with difficulty, to my doctors, my family and my friends. Most people cannot understand perpetual pain because they have not felt it. Juan R. Freudenthal Wellesley, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 2, 1984 | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...high altar of St. Peter's Basilica last week as the Supreme Pontiff invoked the blessings of the saints in heaven. Then, while the group knelt in four neat rows, Pope John Paul, followed by Monsignor Alvaro del Portillo, laid hands on the candidates' heads to convey to them the powers of priesthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Building God's Global Castle | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Intended to convey student's feelings of alienation, the protest instead shocked and angered many professors and threatened to polarize the campus. At a campuswide rally in early May, the full gamut of student grievances blurred in an outpouring of anger. Addressing a crowd of 500 from the steps of Langdell Hall, student leaders accused the faculty of ignoring their appeals for reform...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Keeping the heat on | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Even though Fuller made a movie called The Big Red One about his old division four years ago, he thinks war is impossible to convey on film because "you can't see anything in actual combat. To do it right," he says, "you'd have to blind the audience with smoke, deafen them with noise, then shoot one of them in the shoulder to scare the rest to death. That would give the idea, but then not many people would come to the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Daisies from the Killing Ground | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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