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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though it is the only organized armed force in the country and by far the dominant political faction, the F.S.L.N. has refrained from stacking the new government with its own adherents. From the junta down, each body has included not only leftists but also representatives of such moderate groups as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Steering a Middle Course | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Adams' house, like most middle-class homes before the dawn of stereo, had an upright piano, and Adams practiced on it assiduously. By 14, endowed with a nearly perfect memory, he could take a score to bed with him, study it, and play it in the morning. His teacher was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

To see the range of Adams' achievement as a printmaker is to realize that no photographer in the history of the medium has managed to combine the monumental with the fugitive, the simultaneous awareness of vulnerability and endurance, more concisely. Yet even as they are praising nature, Adams' late prints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

A tone of heavy journalistic irony usually suffuses such coverage, as if the reporter, by suggesting that Bush's dozen trips to New Hampshire so far this year may be a little excessive, hopes to avoid drawing attention to the fact that the reporter's own early presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Obsessed by the Future | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

The itch to know what's going to happen next seems ingrained in modern man, and can be valuable, at least to those Wall Street insiders who buy on the rumor and sell on the fact. But journalism's constant anticipation of the news can be like a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Obsessed by the Future | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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