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Word: sam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your cover tells it like it is; Uncle Sam is "taking a bath" on this deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...Sam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...motives of a Son of Sam [Aug. 22] may be unfathomable, but the progress from hidden psychopathology to murder has one brilliantly clear turning point-easy access to guns. A free society has to tolerate a lot of misfits, freaks and senseless behavior, but should draw the line at gun freaks. Senseless behavior mixed with senseless gun laws produces senseless killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter put himself in the lions' den and dragged Uncle Sam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1977 | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...sing a couple of tunes to his mother, Gladys, and left carrying a 10-in. acetate for her birthday present. Sun Secretary Marion Keisker heard a mean, lowdown sweetness in the baritone voice, made a tape of the session and played it back later for her boss, Sam Phillips. He had been looking for a "black sound inside a white boy" to make Sun Records a national mark way beyond Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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