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Word: ng (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Short for the Tagalog phrase Sandigang, Hukbo Ng Pampbansang Pampalaya, which means the Reliable Army for National Liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILIPPINES: Sandigan | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Voyager 2 will continue on to Uranus, more than 1.6 billion miles from earth. It will reach Uranus 4½ years later, in January 1986. Leaving Jupiter, Voyager took an edge-on look at the planet's ring, which emerged on J.P.L. TV screens as a glow-'ng white neon-like boomerang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's the Robots' Turn, by Jove! | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...troubled affair left almost everyone involved appalled. Says Mahoney: "How could she do this? She had a very comfortable background, good schools, good opportunities." Victoria seems mystified by all the fuss: "You know, it's weird, Because they want to put you in jail for ng in love. Like love is against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Touch of Incest | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...done nothing else, however, the new coincidence of scientific and theological versions of creation seems to have opened up a conversation that has been neglected for centuries. Roman Catholic Theologian Hans Küng detects the beginning of a new period, which he calls "pro-existence," of mutual assistance between theologians and natural scientists. People capable of genetic engineering and nuclear fission obviously require all the spiritual and ethical guidance they can get. As for theologians, the interchange between physics and metaphysics will inevitably enlarge their ideas and give them a more complex grounding in the physically observed universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: In the Beginning: God and Science | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...Seventh, sail for Canton. Eighth, ninth and tenth days at sea: slide shows, lectures, no chopsticks. Eleventh, arrive Canton. Temples, museums, other sights. Twelfth, by plane to beautiful Kweilin, two days. Fourteenth, back to Canton: another temple, shopping, concert. Fifteenth day, to Foshan for temples, pottery factory, têng, têng (etc., etc.). Back to Canton for fabulous final banquet. Sail for Hong Kong, waved off by 17 interpreter-guides, WARMLY SAYING GOODBYE TO LIN-BLADDERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Trip by Ship | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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