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Word: crystals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the pool lie lovely French birds wearing marvelously brief bikinis, nurses and wives and daughters from the French community of 3,000. They twitter and chat, their enchanting laughter wafting across the crystal pool like a breeze of homesickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Phnom-Penh: What Is Going On? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dickey (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (4) 6. Calico Palace, Bristow (6) 7. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (8) 8. The Lord Won't Mind, Merrick 9. The Crystal Palace, Stewart 10. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Jul. 6, 1970 | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

With these properties, the Sandia scientists say, the ceramic will be useful in computers. Because its crystal orientation is determined by the last applied voltage, it is ideal for memory storage; its light-transmitting qualities can be used for computer read-outs and displays. Placed in front of a laser, the ceramic filter can block off the laser beam or let it through, depending on the amount of voltage applied. It can control the laser beam, much as a telegrapher's key modulates a radio wave, thus transmitting information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tinyvision | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...have been eliminated from the employees' platform, these two groups will be more easily reached. It is problematic, hough, because the Holyoke and blue collar workers are being intimidated by their supervisors. And it is the supervisors who have total jurisdiction-the University's latest statement has made that crystal clear...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Striking University Employees to Vote Whether to Continue on Present Course | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

...understand how eager you all must be to ? our shortcomings," he wrote. "But for ? , would you please take the trouble to ? a little more about the facts in this par-? ituation. I think you'll discover that the ? aren't all so crystal clear...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: ??????? | 3/26/1970 | See Source »

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