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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of providing low-cost energy, many of the plants are managerial and financial disasters that have produced higher electric bills. Moreover, a new generation accustomed to seeing the dark side of technology sometimes views nuclear power as the future that did not work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling the Nuclear Plug | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...helping a British woman carry her groceries, says aside, "I would never do this for my wife." For all the little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around a horse-drawn hay wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid and Moscow, then I.O.C. President Lord Killanin spoke defensively about the very future of the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sweet Scene in Sarajevo | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...instantly into cancer of the larynx, because that is the way I'm built." He was also constructed, as this biography makes clear, to share his mastery of English syntax with countless readers, who seek out E.B. White's prose the way an older generation gravitated toward dark, warm-smelling barns or clear wild pools. He was given much; unlike most of his small, happy company, he has given more in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Charmed and Charming Life | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...should he be. In Fabio Carpi's unsentimental, indeed comic view of what would usually be presented as dark doings, youth need not apologize for its selfishness. And age has no choice but to accept it with whatever rue and wit experience has granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Music for High-Strung Instruments | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...stopped playing music when it became more of a business and less of an aristic enterprise. Shepard describes his own career life as if it, too, were an improvisational play. "I don't see it as any kind of evolution. They [his plays] are all experiments in the dark...

Author: By Joanna R. Handelman, | Title: Playwright Shepard at Loeb | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

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