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Word: plasticizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to fit Peter with a special plastic cast right now. Hopefully he can play in the UMass game," Crimson mentor Bob Scalise said after yesterday's clash with Williams, for which Predun did not suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Predun Injured | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

FELIX MALDONADO woke up one morning to find he lost his face and name. Or rather, Felix Maldonado woke up one morning and discovered he had undergone plastic surgery and been given an alias. All because he had failed in an assassination plot on Mexico's president's life--an act he had performed against his will...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Neither the jokes nor the downplaying of the accident was appreciated by most of the workers who pulled on their discardable yellow boots, plastic radiation-protective overalls and hard hats, and crossed guarded bridges to put in harrowing shifts at the plant throughout the period of greatest danger. For days, the engineers had not known for sure just what was happening in the overheated reactor building where radiation levels reached as high as 30,000 rems-a concentration that would instantly fry a human, like a microwave oven cooking a steak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Back From The Brink | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Anwar Gamall, a senior at Cairo University, wonders why Egyptian television is clogged with American serials like Charlie's Angels and Police Woman. "What relevance do they have to life in Egypt?" he asks. "What are Muslims supposed to do? Emulate those lifestyles? Forget Islam and become a plastic person?" Nadia Fatim, a student at the same university, wears a modified veil and a floor-length robe. Says she: "It is a matter of identity. If you dress and behave Western, then you are compelled to be Western. But if you give yourself to Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) sub-committee on house systems may well decide to call on a plastic surgeon soon--it seems it may be time the freshman housing lottery had a face lift...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: If Your Number Comes Up | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

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