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Word: pollens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever. His aides released a report of his last physical examination, in April, which showed no signs of coronary disease and a blood pressure of 120/80-a rate physicians consider excellent. He has a touch of arthritis in his right thumb and a minor respiratory allergy to pollen. Reagan's aides contend that the age issue has been exaggerated by the press, yet polls repeatedly show that it concerns many voters. Reagan has faced the problem mostly by joking about it. In a jab at Carter's collapse during a long jog, Reagan last week referred to the stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Will the Last Remain First? | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...your head," says Matthew 10:30, "are all numbered." There is little reason to doubt it. Increasingly, everything tends to get numbered one way or another, everything that can be counted, measured, averaged, estimated or quantified. Intelligence is gauged by a quotient, the humidity by a ratio, the pollen by its count, and the trends of birth, death, marriage and divorce by rates. In this epoch of runaway demographics, society is as often described and analyzed with statistics as with words. Politics seems more and more a game played with percentages turned up by pollsters, and economics a learned babble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Getting Dizzy by the Numbers | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...corrolas of May flowers had spread open, and now their stigmas waved about, lewdly coated with sick secretions. The pollen which fell in showers from the pines would adhere to them and attempt a kind of sodomy, but success would be reserved for pollen of the same species...In the forest, maple twigs could not be bruised in this season, in fact could barely be touched, without causing the sweet sap to ejaculate into...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Real McKay | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Triple, Pollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Triple, Pollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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