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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The people of Beatty, Nev., a mining town of 500, believe in lending a helping hand. More than 200 residents showed up for a special benefit dance at the town hall that was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Women's Auxiliary. They held a raffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: All in a Good Night's Work | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The Star Ranch was a legal brothel, and Fran York, its madam for the past eight years, not only ran one of the best little whorehouses in Nye County but was a highly respected member of the community. She helped buy uniforms for the local high school band, she regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: All in a Good Night's Work | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

"We do it all for you," sings McDonald's cheery jingle every day on television and radio. But lately the company has discovered that it is doing more than it chooses for some people it would rather ignore: coke users. And not the ones who drink out of bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Stirring Up Trouble | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

For 29 years, Irving and Annette Herman drove around Bridgeport, Conn., in cars whose license plates bore the first two letters of each of their names: IRAN.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Unsafe at Any Speed | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

A few miles south of the Brussels headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies the field of Waterloo. The famous battle that took place there in 1815 was, as the victorious Duke of Wellington said afterward, "a damned nice thing-the nearest run thing you ever saw in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: A Damned Near-Run Thing | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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