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Word: existing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other friends: robust William Harris, 30, and his wan and tired wife, Emily, 28. All four were comrades-in-arms in the explosive and tiny cult of revolutionaries who grandiosely called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. With the arrests, said the FBI, the S.L.A. had ceased to exist. All dozen members of the group, which had first shown willingness to kill in the ambush-slaying of Oakland School Superintendent Marcus Foster in 1973, were either jailed or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: PATTY'S TWISTED JOURNEY | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

Half Dollar. After Matlovich refused on the stand to "contract to be celibate, not to practice homosexuality," Colonel James Applegate, the Air Force equivalent of a prosecutor, charged that those unusual circumstances could not exist "when Sergeant Matlovich says 'I am going to go out and do what homosexuals do.' " The panel apparently agreed. Their recommendation will be reviewed by higher Air Force officers, and a final decision on Matlovich's case will be made by Secretary of the Air Force John McLucas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: No to Matlovich | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...case worker and says in a wispy little voice, "I'm going to drop dead."--the camera finally focuses on welfare workers behind the scenes. A crewcut man with a thin tapering voice while looking at the same couple's folder, is telling a secretary, "...apparently extenuating social conditions exist." He falters and adds, "could just be a case of lousy conditions...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Watching the Camera | 9/24/1975 | See Source »

...difficult to picture a group of people who thrive on crime, stealing and mugging. But these people do exist and they cause other people not to want to be in school with them or live close to them. All the liberal teaching in the world cannot change this very obvious fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCK 'EM UP | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

...Rice doesn't exist except as a baseball player, save for his close friends and family. In the ballpark, though, loping out to the outfield, matching steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Turner's Turn | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

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