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Word: nosedives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meaningful arms reduction is not going to take place until we adopt a "bilateral, verifiable freeze." By freezing the nuclear arms race now, we can sit down with the Soviets and look at what we have, not what we will have or might have. But if we continue to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Harris drove a few hundred feet to the pro shop and entered. There he waved his .38-cal. snub-nosed pistol at two White House aides, David Fischer, a special assistant who travels regularly with the President, and Lanny Wiles, an advanceman. Harris ordered the pair as well as three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanting to Talk to Reagan | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

So presented, this all sounds terribly pessimistic. A loss of extravagant dreams, one is told, entails a forfeiture of beauty, morals, of humanity itself. The presumption is that one finds happiness in looking forward to being happy, a rock on which many churches have built their following, but one which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Here Comes 1984: At Last, The Dreaded Year Is At Hand | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

For all its hard-nosed bluster, the Kremlin appears to have realized how bad an impression it was making, and at week's end made unprecedented efforts at damage control. On Saturday Soviet TV screens showed an interview with an officer described as the pilot, name not given, who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning on the Heat: KAL Flight 007 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

The first blush of the approaching dawn was barely visible as Captain Chun nosed his craft back into the Alaskan sky at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. in Anchorage). He set off on "Jet Route 501," a southwesterly course along the Aleutian Islands and one of five commonly traveled flight paths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atrocity In the Skies: KAL Flight 007 Shot Down by the Soviets | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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