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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally's sure, deep voice exudes confidence, comforting and commanding his Chicago audience like a wise smalltown sheriff. Speaking without a prepared text, he ticks off facts and figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

*His eldest daughter Kathleen, whom he fondly called Kay-Kay, was killed when her young husband came home one night and found her threatening suicide with a shotgun. When he tried to take it from her, the weapon went off. The death was ruled accidental.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Shortly after 6 a.m. last Tuesday, World Airways Flight 031 touched down at California's Travis Air Force Base. A stream of 396 Indochinese refugees began to struggle down the stairway with their makeshift shopping-bag luggage, pausing at the bottom to fold their hands and bow formally to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Not-So-Promised Land? | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

In many ways, however, the latest refugees are worse off than their predecessors, who came with the first wave of Indochinese refugees after South Viet Nam fell. While earlier refugees often brought some money with them, most of the latest immigrants have bartered their cash for their lives and must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Not-So-Promised Land? | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Whether Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova of the Bolshoi Ballet really wanted to go home or to defect with her husband, Dancer Alexander Godunov, may never be known in full. When Godunov, one of the most brilliant of Soviet ballet stars, made his rush to freedom, he did not-or could not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Exit Stage Left | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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