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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fate, working through coincidences, performs several kinds of malevolent interventions. In one brilliant scene. Jade's father, walking in Manhattan, spots David across the street and rushes after him in a rage; he is crushed to death in the traffic. Among other things, the book could be read as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torch Song | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

McKay himself is a rich Bostonian of refined sensibility, great kindness and few brains. Because bees tend to start new swarms if the old queen is removed, and can do so up to four times a season, McKay figures he can parlay the ten hives he is taking to Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sting | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Another question lingered: Was the leaking truly dangerous? Though radioactive, tritium is a hydrogen isotope emitting only low-energy beta particles that cannot penetrate uncut skin. If ingested, tritium may mix with body chemicals, but no biological damage has ever been proven. That ambiguity did not trouble state officials. "If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tritium Chocolate Cake | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

The Nixon Administration entered office determined to end our involvement in Viet Nam. But it soon came up against the reality that had also bedeviled its predecessor. We could not simply walk away from an enterprise involving two Administrations, five allied countries and 31,000 American dead as if we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

I found my discussions with students rather more rewarding than those with their protesting teachers. When I had lunch in the Situation Room with a group of Harvard professors, their objections to the Cambodian decision illustrated that hyperbole was not confined to the Administration. One distinguished professor gave it as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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