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Word: path (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head but no one ever dies. When the crusty, provincial detective scrapes dried blood from the bannister, he really isn't looking for a murder victim. With the mystery at the brink of solution--and this is the biggest bluff of all--it appears there was no crime. This path of deception and confusion makes an evening of humorous mystery, and any selfmade detective has a good chance to discover the truth three or four times before the script oveals...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: The Macabre Annals of Crime | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

Even before the launch, there seemed to be a mystical, almost religious quality to preparations for the last Apollo mission. As the astronauts were driven through the early-evening darkness from their crew quarters to the launch pad, their path was illuminated by a spotlight shining like a guiding star from a helicopter hovering overhead. At the site, the 36-story rocket gleamed starkly white, lit by searchlight beams that radiated from the pad, forming a crown of light. Nature added to the display: flashes of lightning glowed within distant clouds, and an occasional meteor streaked through the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Fiery Beginning of a Final Journey | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...Path to Peace. Of all Indochina's savaged battlegrounds, dream-like Laos should have the easiest path to peace. Unlike Viet Nam, the country is not riven by irreconcilable rivalry between northerners and southerners, between Catholics, Buddhists and Communists or even-in a country with the acreage of Britain and the population of Brooklyn-between the landed and the landless. "If we could speak as one Laotian to another," Interior Minister Pheng Phongsavan told TIME's Peter Simms in Vientiane last week, "we could solve our problems without any great difficulty." That has not been possible, Phongsavan complains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: In Hanoi's Dark Shadow | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...contrast from combinations of timbre rather than individual efforts within a given part. This is on excellent policy when dealing with an acoustical entity as dry as Memorial Church. In a building that holds over 1000 people and offers no echo, terraced dynamics and antiphonal contrast are the surer path to expressive variety...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: University Choir Sings | 12/15/1972 | See Source »

...Cadets do have their escapes. One is flirtation walk, it narrow path on the campus which is unofficially off-limits to officers, and as such is the only place at West Point where Cadets dare touch members of the opposite sex, and which has also been known to shelter many it liquor or dope party. Another escape route is athletics, which consume a major portion of each Cadet...

Author: By Michael S. Feldberg, | Title: The Other Side of This Life | 11/29/1972 | See Source »

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