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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE is a scene in the James Dean movie, "Rebel Without A Cause," in which the hero and his leather-jacketed, hard nosed antagonist must pit their honor and their courage aganist one another in a dangerous automobile contest destined to take from one of them either his life or...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: From the Shelf The Harvard Advocate Volume C III, Number 4 February, 1970, 75c | 2/26/1970 | See Source »

Sir: You suggest that the 150 whales that nosed onto the beach at Fort Pierce, Fla., seemed to be trying to tell us something [Jan. 26]. Of course. Our environment has run so amuck that it is at least possible that the crazed herds of whales might have found the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1970 | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

Magic Amulets. Many of the rebels are hawk-nosed Toubou bandits from the mountains of Tibesti, where, legend has it, the wind is born. Others are wild-haired southern and eastern Islamic warriors bent on holy war, who carry amulets to ward off bullets. Though some of them wear only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Last Beau Geste | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

A herd of 150 small whales nosed their way onto a beach near Fort Pierce, Fla., last week. Boaters and state conservation agents dragged the cetaceans, of the species Pseudorca crassidens, the false killer whale, back into deep water. But the whales doggedly finned themselves onto the sand again, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Place to Die | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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