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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The capture was the first major police break in the biggest man hunt in Italian history. Alunni, one of the most violent and ruthless of Moro's Red Brigades kidnapers, is also believed to have participated in the killings of Moro's five bodyguards, three police officers, two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bellissimo! | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

After six baleful, bitter years, a full 16 seasons after Willie Mays & Co. brought them their first West Coast pennant in 1962, the Giants for most of 1978 have been leading the league in a ding-dong race. Giant fans, regarded as an endangered species likely to be spotted only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants and Dodgers Tangle Again | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

That same day, a yellow Cadillac skidded to a stop alongside an empty lot in The Bronx. Two men jumped out, dragging a six-foot-long wooden crate. After dousing it with gasoline they ignited it, jumped back into the car and drove off. A witness who had noted the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Adventures of Melanie Cain | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

A mourning dove has set up housekeeping in Jackie Kennedy's garden and another that has nested under Andrew Jackson's magnolia. The mockingbirds are getting into the concord grapes, which are just turning juicy in the arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Williams has spotted a few raccoons skulking in the shadows at night, and he has the usual population of gray squirrels that scamper between the lawn and Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue. How they survive the traffic is another of summer's miracles. Apparently the garter snakes have not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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