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Word: prevailingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abroad, when the structures of civilization are threatened the President must respond quickly and decisively. Freedom of the seas was the principle at stake off Libya's coast and, according to one top Navy man, "we were not about to go into a confrontation without adequate force to prevail." Hence, the aircraft carriers Nimitz and Forrestal and 14 other ships formed Reagan's "Big Stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Chip on His Shoulder | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...Aral Sea at targets in the north Pacific and on the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia. In a war, however, the missiles would follow a very different trajectory, over the North Pole, and would therefore be subject to different geodetic, gravitational and meteorological forces, known as bias, from those that prevail on the test range. The result, say the critics, would be bias errors in the accuracy of warheads fired against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vulnerability Factor | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...incomparable Vincent Canby (who is to movie reviewing what the emperor's new clothes were to haute coterie): film is withdrawn only to be released later by the United Artists Classics division with a whole new ad campaign and is hailed as a nearly lost masterpiece. Art prevail over management, they would have it. And they're practically right...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

...cool Chris prevail after a furious fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fire and Ice at Wimbledon | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...warn you that if you do not resist, dictatorship will prevail and reduce you to misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Terror in the Name of God | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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