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Word: nowadayses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the same section freshman Tim Hanke revealed the kind of U.S. History they're teaching in high schools nowadays. Tim didn't seem to recall that Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and John and Bobby. Kennedy had all been assassinated, the only quiz contestant that could make that infamous...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Disk Frisk' Entries More Bizarre Than Questions | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

"From what the refugees tell us," says a South African military official in Namibia, "it must be absolute hell over there." The Cubans and M.P.L.A. forces are reported to be using flame throwers and bulldozers to raze the villages in a 1.6-mile-wide cordon sanitaire being carved out along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Absolute Hell Over There' | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

The Japanese have traditionally regarded open comment on physical infirmities as bad manners. Accordingly, they have been backing away for some time from such offensive terminology as mekura no kojiki (blind beggar) and bik-ko no kojiki (lame beggar) in their translations of the Italian tale. Nowadays the two villains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nose Out of Joint | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

MOTHERHOOD is an emotion-charged word and ambivalence about it is like snubbing apple pie. It means something different to everyone, depending on their own experience, and it poses different problems to women considering becoming mothers. Certainly it has posed a problem for the feminist movement: while a sizeable majority...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: When apple pie goes stale: motherhood and patriachy | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

The lively and resilient modern ball was the brainchild of Coburn Haskell, who proposed a rubber core. Nowadays, wind tunnels are used to gauge flight trajectory and a miniature guillotine tests the toughness of the cover. The latest breakthrough in the industry is the truncated dimple, and a controversy rages...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Five Centuries of Biodegradable Golf | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

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