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Word: functioning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pattern is familiar, or ought to be, for it follows that of earlier American adventures in Iran, Greece, Cuba, and most disasterously in Vietnam. The forces of evil differed from country to country, but the American response remained constant. Whenever American vision of how a nation ought to function was challenged, the U.S. responded with generally anti-democratic, repressive attempts to alter popular movements seeking to influence the political life on their own lands...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Remember The Maine? | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...they won't have to persuade North House, because that House committee last month issued a statement criticizing the ACSR for "not performing its function of discussing the moral and social consequences of Harvard's investment policies...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Inciting An Avalanche | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...even talked about the possibility that the club should not continue to function, that we should have the college take over the building," Coburn said, but added that "right now that isn't under serious consideration...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pudding May Sublease Building Space | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...word Navarone may appear in the title of this movie, but never once does it escape the generally stiff lips of the characters. The word's function is to remind us of the secret mission to blow up the guns in the grand old adventure saga of 1961, and to stir hopes that we are in for more of the same 18 years later. In other words, this is an implied rather than an actual sequel. In the new film the lines behind which our guys are operating are Yugoslav. The mission of Force 10 is twofold: to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boys' Own | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Parks' White House experiences do not begin to fulfill their intended function as a civil rights parable. Her personal life does not contain enough turmoil to sustain even two hours of television time. The First Families, as presented here, are scarcely more fascinating. Too many of them come across as interchangeable ciphers modeled on sitcom couples of the '50s. Most of the Presidents are avuncular prattlers; the First Ladies run the household and often their husbands as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Little Corn, Lots of White House | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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