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Word: pect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brings various expectations. A certain horror-fascination at getting in on the other side of urban America's living fear; the noncerebral prospect of a bloody how-to guide; perhaps a fast freak-show visit into the mind of an animal. The one thing a reader does not ex, pect is a troubling, memorable encounter with a human being. Yet that is precisely what James Willwerth produces. To enter this mugger's world means that inexorably, as one of the mugger's friends put it, "you don't think about laws. The way he thinks is as natural as turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Scene | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...cannot be provided until a complicated question of inspection is resolved, while foreign aid allotment has been stalled by a foot-dragging pro-Israel Senate. "If Kis singer cannot deliver even on those pe ripheral matters," one Sadat aide told TIME'S Wynn last week, "can we ex pect him to deliver on the really big issue, the peace settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Seeking Peace Amid New Sounds of War | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

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