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Word: grave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called invasion of Shaba by Katangese rebels. What Jimmy Carter fails to realize is that Africa is determined to wipe out completely Western domination of the continent. Cuba has the blessing of Africans, especially the younger generation, and anyone who opposes Cuba in Africa digs his own grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Part of the problem is that little Damien has miraculously aged almost a decade in the two years since we left him tearless at his parents' grave, a nominal orphan at five. That angelic-looking child - so hard to believe Satan had anything to do with him! - is now a broody cadet in a military school. Though the deviltry goes somewhat further than short-sheeting the beds or spreading rumors about saltpeter in the food, there is still not enough contrast between Damien's visible aspect and his true nature to make him either lively or ironic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Sign | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...SASC will sponsor a screening of the anti-apartheid film "Last Grave at Dimbaza" and a panel discussion on South Africa in Science Center C at 4:30 this afternoon...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: Group of Seniors Will Protest Harvard's South Africa Stand | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

More than two months after the theft of Charles Chaplin's remains from a grave in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, police last week recovered the body in a cornfield near Lake Geneva. The kidnapers, it turns out, were a Polish car mechanic and his Bulgarian accomplice. The motive? Money. The pair have been telephoning Chaplin's widow, Oona, for several weeks, demanding at first $600,000 in ransom. Police tapped the calls through it all, and finally closed in on one of the robbers in a Lausanne phone booth. The idea for the grisly theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Archbishop of New York, who has a good chance to become the first American Pope, decides to commit murder. The victim: an archaeologist who is at work in the basement of the Cardinal's residence examining what he believes to be the bones of Jesus Christ. If the grave news gets out, people might not believe in the Resurrection any longer. So goes Act of God by Charles Templeton (Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Three Irreverent Authors | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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