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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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To changing Boonton, Vt. comes Margo Philipson, a dumpy Michigan housewife with a history of kidney trouble and a well-developed martyr's complex. She is searching for her missing husband, a handsome minister who she secretly believes married her as an act of self-punishment. The Rev. Philipson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Gothic | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

The Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, massing their biggest rescue operation since World War II, prevented the death toll from being even worse. For 84 straight hours, eight helicopters, six naval vessels, and volunteer commercial ships ranged over 10,000 sq. mi., rescuing 136 sailors. When helicopters spotted survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death in the South Irish Sea | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Mexican beaches were the first to be hit. They were spotted last week with giant puddles of crude oil and thick clusters of tar balls. The Mexican government mounted an emergency airlift to carry newly hatched Atlantic ridley turtles, an endangered species of giant sea turtle, from the polluted beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pancakes and Mousse off Texas | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

No one on the Cornell campus saw Alex Rubens "gorge out" on a cold October night in 1977...No one heard his body strike the boulders more than a hundred feet below, or saw it being swept from the rocks by the current and sent cascading down the gorge toward...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Foreign Correspondent | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Sierra's Moby Dick-like nemesis was not a great whale, but the Sea Shepherd, a converted British fishing trawler purchased by Cleveland Amory's Fund for Animals. The conservationists' ship spotted Sierra 180 miles off the coast of Portugal and shadowed it toward Oporto, where it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Victory at Sea | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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