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Word: imperiale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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In its war games, the U.S. Navy just about always wins. That is part of a tradition that goes back more than 200 years to the day when John Paul Jones, with his ship ablaze and sinking beneath him, shouted to the apparently victorious British, "I have not yet begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

What happened next suggests how much has changed since the days of the so-called Imperial Presidency: Carter vetoed the bill in November (his first exercise of that power), but Clinch River ended up with $150 million for 1978 anyway, almost twice as much as had been voted, then vetoed...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Breeder Politics | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

The Law School will also be the scene of some excitement tomorrow night when Bowie Kuhn, commissioner and imperial majesty of baseball, will be the guest of the Law School Forum. Peanut and crackerjack aficionados will want to be in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall well before the first...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Old Ghosts and a Bow from the Crackerjack King | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

The chemical that most efficiently killed the poppies was an acid known as 2.4-D. The best marijuana spray was a more toxic salt, paraquat, developed by Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries; it is a poison that becomes tasteless, odorless and colorless after it is sprayed on crops. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Panic over Paraquat | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

THE PROBLEM of a ballet such as Sleeping Beauty is not to make the audience believe the fantasy, but to make us not mind that we don't believe it. The dancing doesn't have to carry it alone--after all, this pull-out-all-the-stops Imperial Russian classic...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: A Flawed 'Beauty' | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

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