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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head sports the pagan curls of a young Harpo Marx, and his face and body quiver with some of the same nutty, berserk humor. But native Chicagoan Stephen Wade, 26, has a great deal more to offer than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pipes of Pan | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...caused Japan to threaten Hanoi with a cutoff in aid, which now amounts to $50 million, if it allows Cam Ranh Bay to become a Soviet base. Last week the five ASEAN states of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines poured cold water on Hanoi's offer of a nonaggression pact. The pact was apparently designed to allay ASEAN fears that have been raised by the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, but Hanoi's prospective partners in the treaty would have none of it. Malaysia, which is probably Viet Nam's closest friend in ASEAN, pointedly noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: The Soviets Settle In | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...college. In theory, there is little that students can do to prepare for the dread day, since the S.A.T. supposedly measures innate ability, not learned skills. In practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching schools, which drill and review them-and woo them with promises of striking results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Coaching Daze | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Cooke sell? Buss had made him an offer he couldn't refuse. "I've always said if someone offers me more than what I think one of my assets is worth, I'd be tempted to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Casino | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...this instance, the overriding answer is yes. Sophie's Choice is a sprawling, uneven yet brave attempt to render the unimaginable horror of the Nazi death camps, particularly Auschwitz. This violent century can offer no greater riddle than the existence of such places. They cannot be ignored, but neither can they be considered for too long without jeopardizing sanity. Styron treads a middle course. He keeps the horror at arm's length, in the past and in another country, but offers a heroine-victim who can forget nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Riddle of a Violent Century | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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