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Word: movingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In his final speech at the end of North's testimony, Representative Stokes made a moving statement in which he reflected the other reaction to North. If bigots are inspired by the sight of a marine in uniform standing up to an ethnically diverse Congress, Blacks like Stokes are left...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: About Those Telegrams | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

And exactly what knowledge will be vividly taught? Cultural Literacy is obviously meant to provoke serious debate. But when it leaves the theoretical and lands on the practical, it executes a pratfall. Hirsch and two academic colleagues offer a 64-page appendix of references that constitutes their version of vital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Appendixitis Cultural Literacy | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Little by little, though, the Soviets have been making progress. Two hamlets just beyond the 18-mile security zone were recently reoccupied, and families have started moving back to 16 other villages. The town of Chernobyl itself has been declared largely decontaminated. Thousands of cleanup workers reside in a temporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Judgment at Chernobyl | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Weather officials reduced the typhoon to a tropical depression as it lost speed after moving into the Sea of Japan later yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Korea Struck by Typhoon Thelma | 7/17/1987 | See Source »

Almost always dressed in a natty but rumpled suit, Pivot, 52, is an unlikely candidate for stardom. The son of a winegrower and grocer in Lyons, he attended journalism school in Paris. In 1958, after dabbling in financial reporting and writing a novel, he applied for a job on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Carson of the Literary Set | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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