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Word: hauntingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under questioning, Holmes made an admission that may haunt the Summa lawyers once the trial begins. Holmes recalled that Hughes told him that he had written a holographic will, a last testament whose unwitnessed authenticity rests on identifying the handwriting of the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...station hovers over the yellow, oozing sea of the planet Solaris. In retaliation for radiation bombardments from the station, the sentient sea creates figures from the spacemen's sub conscious and bounces them back up to the station to haunt the inhabitants and drive them to suicide. Not long after his arrival, Kelvin receives a spectral visitor of his own: his exwife, who killed herself back on earth years before. Kelvin is immediately smitten by a lethal mixture of love and guilt, and his mission - and the fate of the space station - is imperiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spaced Out | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Recent Vice Presidents have dutifully promised to bring meaning to the job. None have really succeeded. Even so, the role, with its perks and possibilities, is an attractive one: Hubert Humphrey confided to Mondale that without Viet Nam to haunt the Administration he would have relished the job of L.B.J.'s Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: No. 2 Made His Points | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...unforgettably "dead craters of harsh moon ash on the endless plain where the sea had been," we hear "a disaster of hoofs and animal sighs from behind the fortified walls," we smell "the lunar dust-covered rosebuds under which the lepers had slept." Such descriptions return to haunt us, as they do the patriarch; they are fragments of a real or created past, the whole of which we do not know and he has forgotten...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Memories of a Senile Elephant | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

Back problems continued to haunt Diana Olney. With her number four match tied after two sets she had to default, giving Colby their only singles win of the afternoon...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Racquetwomen Tip Colby, Capture Five of Six Singles | 10/6/1976 | See Source »

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