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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry had something. Carter faces some serious problems, no doubt. Yet he has drifted almost without realizing it into August and what well might pass for "normalcy." Around the White House they believe that getting back to normal is a lot of what Jimmy Carter is about. And they have even been practicing a little of what they have been preaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Nothing Wrong with Normalcy | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...witness stand, Ashley-who already has won 1 million suit against Southwestern Bell for tapping his phone-admitted falsifying expense forms but claimed he did so to cover up political payoffs. Said I didn't take one penny of Bell money for my use ever. I spent a lot of money on whiskey and a lot of money on politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phone Calls and Philandering | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...sang that made Elvis Presley such an immediate, and ultimately irreplaceable, phenomenon. Initially, it was all a matter of attitude, the low lids, the lip that curled up like a whitecap before breaking on the beach, the musky voice that seemed to take its honey coating from a lot of scruffy worldliness and its distinct throb from straight below the waist. His first appearances were small Pop cataclysms. The sensuous movements that headline writers called "gyrations" and that earned Presley nicknames he did not like-Swivel Hips, the Pelvis-had their roots in roistering responses of some fundamentalist congregations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...over from Germany to live and, when he got out of the Army, to go to school in Memphis. She was not yet 15 when they met. They got married when she was 21, and a year later, in 1968, they had a daughter. After that, Elvis spent a lot of time away from her until they divorced in 1973. Presley became reclusive, paranoid. He immured himself among roomfuls of flamboyant furniture in Graceland. He took up karate, amassed a vast collection of guns and police badges and, according to the trio of tattletale bodyguards, would travel not only with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...where a vacationing President signed several bills into law. "It would have been a terrible shame if they had concreted it and put in a music shell or something," says Sughrue. Nevertheless, he is planning to build seven luxury homes on the property-not to mention a concrete parking lot for the tour buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1977 | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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