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Word: difference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing I value most about the Democrats is their diversity [NATION, July 16]. They differ in thought, opinion, vision, background, race, creed, color and sex. As for the Republicans, well, when you have seen one, you have seen them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1984 | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...Book, is a parable of the nuclear age. Two peoples, the Yooks and the Zooks, find themselves in such fierce-and pointless-confrontation that each is ready to drop the fatal Bitsy Big-Boy Bomberoo on the other. They are very similar, these Yooks and Zooks. They seem to differ in only one way: one side takes its bread butter-side up, the other butter-side down. Yooks, Zooks. East, West. Butter-side up, butter-side down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Moral Equivalent of... | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...good company of an entirely differ ent nature is the Groundlings, a home grown group that does improvisational comedy in a tiny Hollywood theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bold, Visual, Spectacular | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...frequent mystery is how to connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does This #%*@! Thing Work? Instruction Manuals | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...much they actually differ, not even Warner and Rauch agree on that. "We support each other, we talk a lot, but we have a very different aesthetic," Rauch says. Warner is less certain: "We have the same mind in a lot of ways, it's just that our approaches are different...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: The two masks of Harvard drama | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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