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Word: downe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diplomatic standings will change in the coming era, some up, some down. The Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

About a mile from Sabana Seca, the truck suddenly accelerated. It passed the bus, slowed, and forced the bigger vehicle to a halt beside a trash dump. Simultaneously, a white van that had been parked down the road came roaring toward the scene, and the blast of automatic weapons fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush at Daybreak | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

When the morning traffic began to pile up at the train station in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, the village elders decided that too many commuters were slowing things down by tarrying to kiss their wives goodbye. To curb such dalliance, the officials designated the area where cars pulled up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ban the Buss! | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ban the Buss! | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Captain Larry Kinsey announced to the passengers: "Please act like adults. If this insurrection doesn't stop, I'm gonna put this plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Kindergarten in the Sky | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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