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Word: knowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found it confusing," said one resident tutor, who asked not to be identified. "It was a curious statement abaout the themes of the '60s. He treated it in such a flippant manner, tending to disregard the importance of those events. I didn't know whether he was making a particular political statement, or simply a humorous after-dinner address...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Bok Writes Open Letter About Gifts, Draws Fire for Kirkland House Speech | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...thing, staying out too late is another, and they don't look similar but they are. This world is so controlled that everything happening has some effect on your life. And I think that when it seems that everyone's runnin' your life, you have to scream. You know? Scream to hear you're there," she said in a high, quiet, somewhat squeamish voice. She was talking mostly about punk, about her first album, "Horses," and the musical movement with which her music has evolved...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

Newspaper editors once printed what they thought their readers should know, which subscribers out of their obligation as citizens dutifully read. At least that used to be the theory. It is no longer. Worrying over the declining readership of newspapers, particularly among the young, the American Society of Newspaper Editors has been polling and studying what readers-and non-readers-think of newspapers. The result comes as a shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Putting Emotion Back In | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

That sharp contrast also impresses Pollster Ruth Clark of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, who conducted readership surveys in twelve cities, and will summarize her findings to newspaper editors at the A.S.N.E.'s annual convention in New York City this week. Clark thinks readers wanted to know not just the grisly facts and exact body counts of the Jonestown cult death in Guyana but also how the reporter felt, so they could "share his experience." Such an attitude violates all the classic instruction of crabby editors to young cub reporters not to "get in front of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Putting Emotion Back In | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...just a black man to them who doesn't know how to be subservient. I'm a big black man with an IQ of 160 making $700,000 a year, and they treat me like dirt...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Pantheon in Pinstripes | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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