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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mission Accomplished. In mid-afternoon the first chopper, a Cobra gunship, swinging low to check the landing zone, came under heavy fire from the ground. It tried to roll out, but nosed into the jungle and exploded. The second, a Huey troop carrier, managed to land and evacuate 17 men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Laos: The Bloody Battle To Get Out | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Too many of the television satires in Groove Tube are half-funny situation comedies that were most likely hatched when someone asked "Wouldn't it be a riot if the camera stayed fixed on the face of a news announcer after he finished reading all his news," or "wouldn't...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Underground Television Groove Tube At the Video Theater, 24 Brighton Avenue, Boston. | 3/5/1971 | See Source »

Critical Misdemeanor. Mailer's major foe is Kate Millett, whose book Sexual Politics devotes some 25 pages to mauling him, and helped prompt the Harper's riposte. Kate loses many a battle with Mailer in the article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women's Lib: Mailer v. Millett | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

It is a great and perilous way they have entered upon, offering in deed and word an authentic Christian humanism as alternative to what they consider a cannibalizing society eating its young and destroying the physical habitat it lives on. The Government better be wary. These are lovely people, real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1971 | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Drop the Socks. For hard-nosed cost cutting, few lines can match United, which last week reported a 1970 deficit of some $46 million. The carrier is saving up to $300,000 a year by using less expensive paper and fewer colors for tickets, timetables and entertainment programs. The little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Does Your Flight Seem Different Lately? | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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