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Word: coversation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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U-235 or Pu-239. The natural element uranium contains only .7% of the isotope U-235. It must be enriched to 90% for use in nuclear warheads, a vastly expensive and complex process. A typical plant using a gaseous diffusion method covers about 90 acres, uses about 400 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Mushrooming Spread of Nuclear Power | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

You blink your eyes in the pervasive neon light as you are sucked further into the maze, past Fine Arts, past Sociology. You find yourself in front of Government 116 with its concise, peremptory title--Socialism. As Marx and Lenin stare out at you from behind hortatory covers, you shudder...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Where the Hell Are the Psych Books? | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

Bobby Womack, besides having the world's best album covers, is a pretty good fast-paced soul singer and guitarist. He's not especially adventurous--most of his repertoire is tried-and-true middle of the road soft rock--but he does an exciting job with what he sings. Womack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

Now for the big item of the day: the legendary Butcher album. When the "Yesterday and Today" album first came out, it pictured The Beatles dressed as butchers and surrounded by wooden babies and chopped meat. Quite grotesque--too grotesque for the public taste in 1967. Capitol pasted new covers...

Author: By Michiko Kakutani, | Title: Nostalgia for the Pepsi Generation | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

ONE OF THE things you're supposed to do, if you're a big-time freelance journalist, is publish a collection of magazine articles every now and then on the theory that your writing has enough literary value to merit being sandwiched between hard covers for posterity. There are, of...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Man of Southern Distinction | 8/13/1974 | See Source »

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