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Word: earthly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flock last week, he made a special effort in the midst of a hectic schedule to visit Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home, a nursing home for the free care of terminal cancer patients. "Once we put our trust in God when we didn't have a thing on earth," he reminds fellow blacks. "Now some of us have had achievements. But we can't forget the God who brings us salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A First for Black Catholics | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...newspaper reporting. But none of these achieved the glitter and scope of his most triumphant narrative, which concluded, after all, with a warning that the lightning of inspiration does not strike twice: "Races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Half-Century of Solitude LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...claims not to endorse any specific ideology, but the slogans he literally peddles include "Share the Earth," "The Moral Majority is Neither" and "Join the Army--Travel to exotic, distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Selling Whole Wheat Against the Grain | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...school play, and yours truly, the alien who has to hide in the laundry room when anyone comes to call. My Saturday-morning cartoon reminiscences about Melmac have become one of the three most popular TV shows for children. A movie about my journey from Melmac to earth is planned for later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...pastime, fish and all. My favorite item is a T shirt showing me in X-ray glasses saying to passersby, "Hey, nice underwear." Haaah! I kill me! All in all, I am the busiest long-shnozzed, four-toothed, 3-ft. 2-in. creature with burnt-siena fur anywhere on earth. Of course, there aren't many talking life forms here that look like me. I am continually being mistaken for an anteater, a dwarf orangutan or an aardvark, which on Melmac we encountered only in crossword puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Stranger in A Strange Land | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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