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Word: familiarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanta Yo fast-moving. Just over 800 pages long, Hill's epic is hardly suspensful. Rather, it is sagalike, but the reality is Siouian. The ethnography can be tedious if the reader is not interested. On the other hand, for readers who are familiar with American Indian history, Hanta Yo is just another well-written novel that does not work as well as it should...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Perpetuating an American Stereotype | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...such life into death." Ingrid Bergman praised the director as "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." Ventured Cary Grant, who managed to emerge alive from four Hitchcock epics: "The best is yet to come, Hitch." Spattered with tributes and smothered by adoration, Hitchcock observed in his familiar bullfrog voice: "Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 19, 1979 | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Another frighteningly familiar threat has suddenly loomed again: the prospect of production cutbacks by other OPEC members. Libya last week announced that beginning April 1 it will reduce sched uled deliveries to oil companies by 12 to 18% for unspecified reasons. Similarly Algeria told oil company customers to reduce purchases by 10% to 15%. OPEC officials tried to link continued oil supplies to a pro-Palestinian solution to the Arab Israeli conflict, but the real reason for the cuts is to keep supplies tight and prices high even though Iran is resuming limited production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Petro-Perils Proliferate | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Rutgers University Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called. New York Psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin has just weighed in with a study called Feelings: Our Vital Signs, which scrutinizes and tries to delineate all the familiar varieties of human feeling. Gaylin thus probes the character of a state that he calls not "happiness" but "feeling good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...addition to the energy concern, the businessmen that we train should be familiar with an alternative fuel source from a business investment standpoint for the future," Ellis said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bentley College Will Use Solar Heating | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

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