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Word: specked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentration on his meetings suggests he is a serious man who could be trusted. That is his central mission, and if he implants even a speck of that idea then he will make progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Odyssey Day by Day | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Advocates of the death penalty argue that an Aikens -or a Manson or a Speck or an Eichmann-must be cut out of society. If these people are usually poor, friendless or from a minority group, it is because that is the sort of person who commits such crimes. Whatever the reasons for the crime, say those who favor the penalty, it is irresponsible ever to give a mass murderer a chance to go free. Abolitionists point out that life sentences could be imposed without possibility of parole, or that parole need never be granted if the prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Death Penalty: Cruel and Unusual? | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Open space proves to be the actor's enemy in this building, leaving him ungrounded, unfocused and lacking gravity. Watching a play in the vast vertical reaches of the Vivian Beaumont is like seeing a child's lost balloon float upward and upward until it becomes a speck against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Howitzers and Hymns | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...missions, the problem-plagued home base Earth might look a little dull in comparison, but it will still be here, and it is all we've got. If beings from outer space exist, let's let them come to us, and start cleaning up our own little speck of space while we wait. We do want to be here when they arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1972 | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

Koerner finished some 27 seconds ahead of second-place Speck and bested Rojas' 26:57 winning time against Northeastern...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Harriers Come Back in Style: Defeat Providence and UMass | 10/6/1971 | See Source »

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