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Word: convulse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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> New Hampshire has had greater difficulties. Its Provincial Congress wrote to the Continental Congress last fall to report that it was in a "convuls'd state" and needed guidance "with respect to a method for our administering justice and regulating our civil police." John Adams of Massachusetts was delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Troubled Transfer of Power | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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