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Word: evering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally advertisement was the symbol of another element in the 1980 race: its length. The spot was one of the earliest national television advertisements ever purchased for a presidential race. But network executives have had to refuse to sell larger chunks of time to Reagan and Carter, saying that they do not want to give candidates access to the nets until 1980. Last week the Carter-Mondale Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging the networks with denying them reasonable access to air time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...candidates face in having to compete for convention delegates in 36 primaries across the nation. In 1968 there were only 17 primaries, but now the need to organize in so many places, and the need to campaign personally in all sections of the country, has forced the rivals into ever earlier activity. Will the seemingly endless electioneering burn out both the workers and the voters long before next year's Election Day? In Florida, where Democrats are just recovering from the struggle over delegates to a state convention at which a meaningless straw vote will be taken, National Committeewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...party in state after state. The large number of Republican candidates (nine) challenging him tends to split the anti-Reagan vote and thus strengthen the front runner. Reagan, however, carries some weighty burdens. He is 68 years old. If he wins, he will be the oldest President ever elected in U.S. history. Perhaps more important, the theatrics of American politics tends to make any three-time candidate seem shopworn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...members survived. Passenger Dwane Canaga, a building contractor from Stockton, Calif., recalled that just before the crash, "the captain came on with the usual speech. Ten seconds later, we had this mean bump, and I said to myself, 'That's probably the worst landing I've ever had." Then all hell broke loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Crash of the Night Owl | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Innocent Cambodians are, as ever, caught in the crossfire. According to refugees, Vietnamese troops "liberating" a hamlet from the Khmer Rouge will customarily abolish the communal kitchens and other vestiges of Pol Pot's extremist brand of Communism and allow the citizens to elect their own leaders. The Vietnamese then move on to other villages, leaving the inhabitants defenseless against the revenge of Khmer Rouge who swoop down at night, reinstitute the communal kitchens, seize what food is available, and kill the elected leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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