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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child of The New World | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Retired and a widower, he tries to recollect the odd story of Harry Fonstein, the nephew of his father's second wife. He has not seen Harry and his wife Sorella for 30 years, but he finds them disturbingly memorable. Harry had reached the U.S. through bizarre circumstances. Barely escaping his native Poland ahead of the Nazis, he finally fetched up in Rome, only to be arrested by Mussolini's police. Soon, he was approached by an Italian man and given instructions on how to walk out of jail, go to Genoa and get on a ship bound for freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child of The New World | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

FROM its title, Berke Breathed's new comic strip, "Outland," promises to take readers someplace unusual and distant every Sunday. But you've seen this before. In this case, familiarity breeds contempt...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Lichten said he had not seen the letter from OSHA saying he received a call about it from Spence just this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Complaint Prompts OSHA Query | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

...some things offensively that I haven't seen this team do this year," Indiana Coach Jerry Yeagley said. "It was our best effort to date...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Stanford Invades Ohiri To Take on M. Booters | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

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