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Word: nt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would be wrong. There are still people who feel hurt psychologically. The two weeks after Dec. 16 [however] were the most unstable period. The stock market dropped, and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the New Taiwan dollar on the black market rose to NT $43 for $1. Domestic and foreign investors seemed to be reconsidering their investments. But it seems to us that since January the situation has improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Interview with Taiwan's President | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...COULD'NT figure out who was flicking the switches to get the whole production going. The fact that the whole show was for my benefit--with just me and Sister Wood in that empty room--made me even more uncomfortable...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Mannequins and Mormons | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

...then, this is no Romeo and Juliet score, and Cacoyannis is nt to euripideswhat Franco Zefferellis is to Shakespeare: a perpetrator of soppy drivel for the masses. Iphigenia has the power and appeal to be relatively popular, and if you disregard the final scene, the only thing the movie sacrifices is Iphigenia herself...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...nt week's end differences between the moderate Egyptians and the more radical Syrians were still preventing the Arab bloc countries from working out a draft resolution that was expected to call for acceptance of "the national rights" of Palestinians and a timetable for Israeli withdrawal from all territory occupied since the 1967 war. Although the U.S. reportedly would be amenable to a resolution that recognized "the legitimate interests" of the Palestinians, Moynihan?who is acting under precise instructions from a somewhat nervous State Department during this debate?said the U.S. would veto any formulation that mentioned Palestinian "rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A FIGHTING IRISHMAN AT THE U.N. | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

With Help I Am Being Held Prisoner, Westlake returns to the usual sequence, though readers may still think they discern film sprockets running down the sides of the pages. The hero, Harry Künt, is a practical joker, one of whose pranks has spectacularly misfired and landed him in prison. There he falls in with a group of cons who have access to a secret tunnel-not to escape by, but to use for a sort of shore leave to the neighboring town, where under assumed names they set up households, open charge accounts and join local bowling teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sand in the Machinery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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