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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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How can a nation's judicial system be so unjust that Dan White of San Francisco can get off with manslaughter after committing two senseless murders, and John Spenkelink [June 4] is executed?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

>The opportunity for each leader to take the measure of the other may head off future misunderstandings. This was especially important for Carter, who has had no face-to-face dealings with Soviet officials except for brief meetings in Washington with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khorosho,' Said Brezhnev | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

One lesson learned during World War II is that hoarding of one item can cause a run on another. In 1943 the rationing of shoes touched off hoarding of clothes, and the rationing of canned meats and fish started panic buying of canned vegetables and fruit. Another lesson is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Hoarding Days | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

The green tide of Watergate-writing cash keeps rolling on. John Dean's Blind Ambition crests in a four-part TV spectacular. Judge John Sirica's refreshingly unjuridical To Set the Record Straight surges onto the bestseller lists. Now comes John Ehrlichman's second novel, The Whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Convict and His Prosecutor | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

I felt sympathy for some of the men around Nixon, especially John Mitchell. He was a gruff bear of a man who had been outstanding in the narrow field of bond law. He was an interesting fellow, cordial, in contrast to the cold and forbidding image many had of him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Convict and His Prosecutor | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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