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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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But it is Rose's unfathomable squandering of his own ability, his willingness to surrender his history for the rush of the bet that will make his memory endure beyond any portrait hanging in a gallery in Cooperstown. In the end, it wasn't the courts, or a pointy-headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Hustle's Final Play: Pete Rose | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

In Washington, to ease the FBI's burden, Bloch generally tells agents where he is headed. Even so, as one agent allowed, there have been some fender benders caused by the troupe. In front and back of Bloch's Washington apartment, FBI agents sit in autos, the motors running, smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Lunch with Felix | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Six days later, Walesa met with Jaruzelski and proposed that Solidarity form a government. The new President said no. Instead he invited Solidarity to join a grand coalition government headed by the Communists. Walesa refused. Soon thereafter Jaruzelski stepped down as Communist Party leader in favor of Mieczyslaw Rakowski. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Epochal Shift | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

-- The most frightening accident of the week was reminiscent of the July 19 crash of a United Airlines DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, caused when the rear engine exploded, cutting the plane's hydraulic flight controls. On Wednesday the rear engine shattered on a Northwest DC-10 headed for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Needs Work: Too few jet mechanics, too many breakdowns | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

To realize such sweeping changes, the Communist Party must secure the cooperation not only of Solidarity but of its own allies as well. However, as last week's threatened defection by the Peasants demonstrated, there is growing impatience with the compromise implicit in the round-table agreement. Observed the Solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland To the Brink - and Back Again | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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