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Word: snaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ayatullah Khomeini denounced the U.S. as a "defeated and wounded snake" and termed Washington's relations with Tehran as those of a "tyrant with an innocent, a savaged victim with a plunderer. We don't need America. It is they who need us. They want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Sticks and Carrots | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...snake of parked automobiles wrapped around North Quinsigamond Avenue and up through the parking lots encircling the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The farther north you went, the more infrequent the cars got. There was an occassional tailgate contingent, complete with hibachi and cold beer, and the die-hard cyclist, determined to pedal 2000 meters every 15 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reflections on the Sprints | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

Backfiring and coughing out clouds of smoke, a long procession of buses snake-danced through the streets of Salis bury, packed with hundreds of singing, fist-pumping celebrants. They were supporters of Bishop Abel Muzorewa going to the victory rallies for the man who in June is to become the first black Prime Minister of a country that will be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. But that as it happened was about all that could be said with any certainty about the break away British colony's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Bishop's Tough Challenge | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...around the rules. The Australian aborigines also find themselves sitting on much of Australia's potential uranium supply. Like the Native Americans, they consider these uranium mountains sacred. They even have a legend about them, which says that if even one of those mountains is disturbed, a huge snake will emerge to destroy the world...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Mushrooming Movement | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...Egypt, the U.S. or Israel after the treaty signing. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud remained impassive as the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat argued for an economic boycott of both Egypt and the U.S. Declared Arafat: "l don't just want to cut off the tail of the snake, I want to crush its head. The U.S. is the head and Sadat the tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Jumble of Reactions | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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