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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev deserve a big hand for SALT [June 25]: to make the world safer for everyone is a great achievement. Let's hope it works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: SALT Signing | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...does the state, which seems unable to stop gang killings and intimidation in its penal institutions, have the audacity to think that it is even qualified to license anything, let alone a church institution, which the state has no constitutional right to interfere with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: SALT Signing | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...prolong Skylab's life by anywhere from one to five more orbits. By contrast, a second option would be to send the vehicle into an early tumble, which would cut from one to three orbits from its natural, uncontrolled reentry. A third option would be to do nothing and let gravity take its course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...places small dots quietly, to form distinct images. But step back from the painting, and the scene blurs. It is as if she washed her canvas with color, softening the detail, leaving an intense but somehow fleeting emotional moment. Like the Impressionists, she seldom makes judgments, preferring to let her images capture and sway the reader...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Crippling Sensitivity | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

...sequence of the new film, you'll relive the excitement of the old movie's climactic fight scene. Later in Rocky II, you'll feel those same chills as you realize you're going to see that same fight for the third time in two movies. They couldn't let a good fight end after 15 rounds, so you'll sit through 45. The third time around, you'll even see it in show-motion streams of sweat and blood...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and Scott A. Rosenberg, S | Title: No Future | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

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