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Word: downe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christmas shopping got you down? Too much tinsel and ticky-tacky? The Chicago area's Brookfield Zoo has the answer: give your loved ones a Siberian tiger, or perhaps a rhinoceros. Under the scheme, the zoo has put up all 2,000 of its animals for "adoption," although they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: And a Fish in a Fir Tree | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

That did it. Irving hustled down to the motor vehicle office and got new plates with a nice safe number.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Unsafe at Any Speed | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

A no-confidence upset brings down Clark's Tory government

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Casual Joe Takes a Fall | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

When Speaker James Jerome ordered the "vote on division" at 9:50 p.m., the packed public gallery in Canada's House of Commons stirred with excitement. The balloting took only eleven minutes. When it was over, the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister Joe Clark, just 6½ months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Casual Joe Takes a Fall | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Such hangdog pathos is enough to provoke wistful dreams of returning to the vanished day when a person was guided only by folk wisdom: an apple a day would keep the doctor away. But there is no going back. Today the apple must be checked for sprayed-on toxins. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Living Happily Against the Odds | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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