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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the rockpile just outside the village, on the side of the road. Every time a campesino passes by there on the way to his field, he throws another stone on the pile, so that the devil will stay away." The padre took a long sip of beer from the glass on the table and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Or their custom of spilling out some of their drink before they have any of it to give thanks to Pachamamma, their Mother Earth. It's left over from their pagan beliefs...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...Christmas, with all of its hope, good will and cheer"), and the soaring strains of Joy to the World and Mary Had a Baby rang out from the Army chorus. The White House staff, from lawyers to clerks, came together in small warm groups to nibble Christmas cookies and sip some eggnog. Nixon showed up briefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The White House Becomes a Home | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Nixon and his Bicentennial Commission will ignore these issues. They will ignore what the American Revolution was really about and what it took to win it. They, like Josiah Quincy a hundred years ago will sit back and sip a cup of tea and say, "Let's keep revolutions in the history books where they belong...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Celebrating the Revolutionary Party | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...program of primal therapy. "I've spent the last three or four years worried more about what I feel than my career," she said. The screams also loosen her up for her own rhythm and blues songs, which she is recording on an album to be called Come Sip My Wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 3, 1973 | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

Secretariat could probably have finished even faster, but he is fastidious about his mealtime manners. He likes to work on the mash for a while, then refresh his taste buds with a sip of water or a few wisps of hay. From time to time he pauses to tidy the floor of his stall by picking up stray kernels. He is the neatest glutton at the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

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