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Word: loch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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America has been saturated in recent years by tales of the paranormal and claims of the pseudo scientists. The list seems endless: Uri Geller, the Bermuda Triangle, E.S.P., levitation, Jeane Dixon, Kirlian photography, the Loch Ness monster, psychic surgery, Immanuel Velikovsky, thinking ivy plants and now-again -flying saucers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...Nixon interviews, he hopes to get a few farthings from his glossy Cinderella movie musical, The Slipper and the Rose; an eight-part TV series, Crossroads of Civilization, which is being shot on a $2.5 million budget in Iran; and Nessie, a $7.5 million sci-fi extravaganza on the Loch Ness monster, to be filmed later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: David Can Be a Goliath | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...economically deprived English regions began to talk of local assemblies of their own. Liberal M.P.s wondered whether a federal system for the entire U.K. might be a sensible idea. Furthermore, as parliamentary debate on the government's bill opened, the original devolution question became mired in a muddy loch of contiguous issues, including possible referendums, local taxation and proportional representation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Labor Runs Afoul Of a Muddy Loch | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie" (who lives in Loch Ness). Trade names like Levi's, Muzak, Nescafe and Jell-O have officially entered the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Haarlem to Nzima | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...sweeping politics, art, literature, law, history--anything humane--under the academic carpet. Harvard bought most, but not all, of this concept, insisting on adding studies of society. The outcome is a two-headed monster chair of 'Korean economics and society' untraceable in the frostiest depths of any previous academic Loch Ness...

Author: By Gregory Henderson, | Title: Harvard's Korean Grant: Dreams of Reason and Spectres | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

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