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Word: facedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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We stayed a day at Kharg while the tanker was being loaded. That night, as usual, we listened to the BBC and the Voice of America in the captain's cabin. It did nothing for our nerves to hear a BBC report that our ship had supposedly been hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tense Trip to Kharg | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Thelma Beauregard is a gray-haired, pleasant-faced woman of 67, who awoke one night four years ago at her home in Plymouth, Mass., with tingling and burning sensations running from her left elbow to her hand and down into her fingers. From then on, the slightest touch triggered sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Neal I. Koblitz '69, a mathematician at the University of Washington, donates the royalties he receives from his books to a fund he and his wife set up to aid women scientists in Vietnam. Koblitz's Harvard classmate, Michael K. Fenollosa '69, now an assistant vice-president at Boston's...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: Idealists meet the real world | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

But when Pusey became president in June of 1953, he inherited the cases of Wendell H. Furry, Leon J. Kamin and Helen Deane Markham. In February Furry, then an associate professor of Physics, had been called before Congressman Harold H. Velde's House Un-American Affairs Committee and had refused...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Speaking freely in academe? | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

In addition to faculty activism on the left, a number of faculty members in this period who were identified with the government or espoused ideas construed as conservative, faced student harassment. Heckling crowds disrupted the classes of, and sometimes followed around the campus, George D. Markham Professor of Government Edward...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Speaking freely in academe? | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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