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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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A. Well, to an acceptable degree, we'll prove this. Anyway, now all of a sudden we saw this guy who was much hated, and who we knew was the lackey of Americans, suddenly in the U.S. for "medical" treatment. The guy is reportedly dying of cancer, yet he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The U.S. Doesn't Give a Damn | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

After all the oversized headlines and gossip-column innuendoes, it looked as if Hamilton Jordan, 35, President Carter's top aide, had managed to ride out the storm. But last week, seven weeks after the FBI submitted its preliminary findings U.S. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti recommended that a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Coke Probe | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

But Louisiana has come a long way from the Depression poverty that Long fought-and exploited. If the state has the highest illiteracy rate in the nation, it ranks with Texas as a leading producer of gas and oil. A burgeoning middle class has produced conservative politics. Republicans are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Battle Royal for Huey's Throne | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Byrne worked feverishly to line up votes for Burke at last week's meeting of the Democratic Central Committee, which would endorse one of the two rivals. Telephones jangled all over Chicago, and if arms could not be twisted, ears could certainly be reddened. Said a longtime city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Calamity Jane Strikes Again | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Then came the turn of elegant Eddie Burke. Expanding his chest, he pledged to wage war on drug pushers and rapists if elected. A Baptist preacher exulted that Burke would create a "spiritual surge that will lift us into orbit for God." More down to earth, Committeeman Marty Tuchow explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Calamity Jane Strikes Again | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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