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Word: courtly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not seek to force Catholics, fundamentalists or any other pro-lifers to have abortions they don't want. Yet when a court suit seeks to prevent them from legislating their way down all our throats and using our tax system as a means to force women to bear children they don't want, they call it a threat to civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...reserves of 166 billion bbl. If the U.S. could eventually shift its oil dependence closer to home and away from the volatile Arabian Gulf that now satisfies about a third of U.S. imports, the country's security would be greatly strengthened. But other nations also are beginning to court the new Mexico. Japanese technicians have been exploring, Brazil is negotiating, and France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing comes calling later this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Mexico with Love | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...squads were lethargic as they took top the court at the opening of the final stanza. Princeton played control basketball for the most part, burning the Crimson zone press repeatedly and keeping the poorly executing Harvard quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers Fall to Tigers, 65-60 | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...undergraduate adjust and organize his life at Harvard. It is not a punishment, they say. But it is hard to imagine a bureaucratic device that often prevents students from partaking in extracurriculars and that is called "probation" as anything but punishment. Back out in society, probation is what juvenile court gives you before they send you to jail...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--A U.S. District Court jury yesterday convicted two anti-Castro Cubans on five counts of murder in the assassination of Chilean exile Orlando Letelier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letelier Trial | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

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