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Word: sinkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become an unpretentious symbol of sophistication in a medium where that quality is usually considered a punishable offense. As Laura Petrie, the slightly daft heroine of the classic Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore demonstrated that sitcom suburban housewives did not have to be domestic ninnies chained to a kitchen sink. With her easy wit and sturdy intelligence, almost single-handed she brought TV out of the Lucille Ball-Donna Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Once in Love with Mary | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...reign, reinforced the cheers that were beginning to roll across the stunned square. Now it seemed to hit everyone at once. "E il Polacco!"?It's the Pole?said one onlooker. "Un Papa straniero!"?a foreign Pope?shouted others. The realization was beginning to sink in that the supposedly hidebound College of Cardinals had done not merely the unexpected but the nearly unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

FASTEN SEAT BELTS PLEASE. The light blinks on overhead, we sink into our seats and careen off into the wild blue '80s. And it becomes harder and harder to analyze and thus understand the slothful indulgences and psychotic tendencies of that great unruly beast, the American Imperium. Our best writers have tried--and mostly failed--Pynchon, with the wondrous Gravity's Rainbow, a critical mass of incendiary pages, and McGuane, with his taut vision of love and death in the Florida Keys, 92 in the Shade. No wonder there is so much yearning for that time of the superego...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Laughter, Loneliness and Sex | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...very different sort of one-man show has just opened this past Monday. Victor Borge, the "piano prince of comedy", sings, jokes, and plays --you guessed it-- his piano. Go; join the legion of Borge fans as you sink in laughter over the man's routines. At the Colonial; call...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Core for the Connoisseur | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...significant variable is whether or not a revolution can sink some strong roots into the population," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skocpol Says Revolt Unlikely In South Africa | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

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