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Word: nesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange's 293-year history, the members of the 403 separate risk-taking Lloyd's syndicates have insured countless ships and just about everything else from satellites to the Loch Ness monster and Betty Grable's legs. They even underwrote for $1 million the bust of a San Francisco striptease dancer billed as "Treasure Chest West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lloyd's Losses | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

EDWARD & MRS. SIMPSON (syndicated stations, Wednesdays, beginning Jan. 23.) Kings of England have been deposed, murdered and executed. One, poor George III, was even confined for mad ness. But until 1936 none had voluntarily renounced his throne. That dubious dis tinction was left to Edward VIII, who reigned for exactly 325 days and then gave up his crown for "the woman I love," a Baltimore divorcee by the name of Wallis Warfield Simpson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Affairs of Hearts and Minds | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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