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Word: knowingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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"My experience at Radcliffe," she continues, "and knowing and caring about women there gave me a base for believing that women should turn to each other for help."

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Alumni Reflect on Lives Shaped By '60s Politics | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Both provisions are amendments to defense authorization bills. The more workable and sensible Senate version is likely to prevail. Nevertheless, it gives to the military a far greater role than it wanted in drug interdiction. The Pentagon, eager to avoid the nasty work altogether, yielded to pressure . from the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Mission Impossible: Seal the Border in 45 Days | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Todd's life is a walk through the 20th century, and Boyd makes a lavish, if somewhat raveled, tour leader. Todd's mother, like Rousseau's, dies giving birth to him, and he grows up with his dour physician father and his pompous elder brother, not knowing much of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rousseau Redux THE NEW CONFESSIONS | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Some Muslim leaders see an invigorating sort of challenge in the highly secular and sometimes hostile American environment. "The freedom of expression in this country is allowing Muslims here to practice in the true sense," says Safi Qureshey, a devout Sunni and successful California businessman. Historian Haddad notes that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Americans Facing Toward Mecca | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Bo Browning leads the expedition. It moves down Interstate 20 in a 20-car- and-camper caravan and into the still brown land of broomweed and tumbleweed, thorn trees and mesquite and prickly-pear cactus. Browning has been hunting snakes since he was 14, always with the same high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: A Local Spring Rite | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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