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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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I was beginning to think that Harvard had won the national hockey championship FOR NOTHING.

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

But Meyer insists that there is nothing wrong with the intent of the third point in its original form, even if it is unworkable.

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

If one man could be singled out as Hitler's most resolute and effective antagonist, it was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. On the day the Germans attacked Poland, he was 64 years old and had held no Cabinet post in ten years. Yet in all the West, his was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Despite all the German troop movements, despite sharp words between the two regimes, the supposedly crafty and suspicious Stalin foresaw nothing. The very night before the attack, Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov called in the German ambassador, Count Friedrich von der Schulenberg, and said the Soviets were "unable to understand the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Years | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Hitler's greatest mistake of all, historians generally agree, was his decision to turn away from Britain and invade Soviet Russia. That ultimately disastrous error was based on a gross underestimation of the Soviet Union's strength and its people's willingness to fight stubbornly for their homeland. But here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If . . .? | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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