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Word: staringer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Packets of diamonds in the rough, as well as polished stones cut by the street's manufacturers, are traded in the club's nondescript 200-ft. by 200-ft. room. Reports TIME'S John Tompkins: "You get into an elevator with a crowd of Hasidim and feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diamonds Are Forever | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Staring from the poster, they looked like a nightmare of what might be, that terrifying day when the street gangs take over the city, any city. Some of them wore leather vests over bare chests. Others had on Arab headdresses. A few, their faces painted harlequin colors, wore baseball uniforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Paul Nitze may know more about the world's periodic outbursts of devastation than any other person. He was seven, and climbing in the Tyrol with his parents, when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering World War I. He was traveling in Germany in 1937 as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The White-Haired Hawk | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

On the third floor, scientologists participate in drills designed, as Velona said, to "better their skills in communication." Near a window sat two students facing each other and staring directly into each other's eyes. They sat motionless and speechless. "This drill allows one to feel more comfortable when talking...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Scientology's Way: Linking Soul and Science | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

Throughout all this, Blake produces more fog than film. Nevertheless, there are two reasons to view Murder by Decree: Christopher Plummer and James Mason. As the detective, Plummer grows from insufferable know-all to a man of sympathy and dimension. As the good doctor, Mason shuttles cannily from pawky humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 93% Solution | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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