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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The dessert was probably never served. Sometime after 2 p.m., when radio contact with the aircraft was lost, the three-engine jet rammed into the snow covered side of Mount Erebus and exploded. Nine hours later, search aircraft from the nearby U.S. airbase at McMurdo Sound spotted the wreckage strewn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Tour to a Snowy Death | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

He scraped up a little money by buying small lots in Gulfport, Miss. Then he went to New Orleans, the main chance. While the International Trade Mart was under construction, he marched up all 26 stories to the top. "That walk up was the toughest work I ever did. Rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Outsider Makes it Big | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Even before the opening credits, Jessica (Bergen) has kicked hubby Phil Potter out of their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

While the Minsk was cruising off Japan last summer, Japanese photographer Mitsuo Shibata, flying in a rented plane, spotted Moscow's newest carrier and took this revealing set of aerial pictures near Miyako Island in the Ryukyus. With the Minsk he found the Petropavlovsk, a Soviet cruiser that carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now the Minsk | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Two years later, a lama in the National Assembly received a vision of a house with blue tiles, twisted drainpipes, and a spotted dog. Immediately, thousands of lamas went into prolonged meditation to seek further direction. Soon after, the same lama saw several symbols identifying the region of Tibet where...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Hello Dalai | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

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