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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Charles separates Boston from Cambridge, Mass, (and Harvard College). It was soon apparent that in Greater Boston, passionate feeling about an English King who had his head chopped off in 1649, James Michael Curley and history in general flowed as deep and murky as the Charles itself. "Unfortunate," snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Confronting a Curley $65,000 Question | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter last week defended his conduct of American foreign policy before a group of newspaper editors and broadcasters assembled in Washington. Some excerpts: "Recent events, particularly in Iran and Southeast Asia, have touched off a national debate about what America's role should be in dealing with turbulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More Subtle Shades | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

They had pulled off the biggest holdup in U.S. history with professional perfection, but the $5,850,000 in cash and jewelry turned them giddy, as well it might. The gang that seized the loot from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo facility at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cracking the Lufthansa Caper | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

After three hours of hosing, the rock removers once again hauled on their cables. The rock budged, then began to roll, once again burst free of its cables, bounded off a 125-ft. cliff and landed with a great crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, just 50 ft. from Radnitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Rock of Ages | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

On Tuesday, the fourth day of the war, the Chinese advance resumed with a vengeance. A seemingly formless front rapidly developed two main, logical prongs of attack: one in the northwest on the railroad line leading south to Hanoi, the other in the the east on the major rail link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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