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Word: lookingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in two trips a newcomer picks up a good deal of lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The Thatcher immigration policy is aimed at curbing "those coming in." The proposals, which will be formally announced in the fall, would restrict most further immigration to the wives and children of male heads of families already legally settled in Britain; that would chiefly affect nonwhites, since many would-be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The cult sounds like a cross between the Book of Revelation and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. It was born in 1975 when a distinguished-looking couple held a series of West Coast meetings to announce that a spaceship would soon arrive to swoop up properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Flying Saucery in the Wilderness | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Like most Green Road parents, the plaintiffs want their children to use standard English, but they insisted that the school respond more sympathetically to the dialect in teaching. "Language is like clothing," said University of Michigan Professor Daniel Fader, testifying on behalf of the children. "When you take it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outcry over Wuff Tickets | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

The discovery by Pathologists Harold and Ann Dvorak, along with W. Hallowell Churchill of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, results from three years of work with guinea pigs. It is based on two vital clues provided by earlier investigators: first, some tumors have nearby deposits of fibrin, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Cocoon | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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