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Word: surprisingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Energy Department urges fuel users to make a surprising switch

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Natural Gas: Sudden Glut | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Having said all that, one must admit that there is a certain liveliness in Director Pierson's work. He has a way of filling out the frame with energetic, emotionally charged-up figures. There are color and movement in his work, and it contrasts vividly with the more calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gypped | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

The concept of women's education has drastically changed in the last decade. Radcliffe's impressive list of prominent alumnae notwithstanding, the college has not been perceived, over most of its history, as a route to power in the same sense that Harvard has. This is not surprising. Neither have...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Hundred Years of Solitude | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

What is surprising is that McEnroe has come so far so fast matched against such opposition. He has beaten the likes of Roscoe Tanner, Adriano Panatta, Eddie Dibbs and Corrado Barazzutti and on one glorious occasion even managed to knock off Borg, 6-3, 6-4, in Stockholm, of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: His Own Worst Enemy | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

It is rather surprising that Revlon's Bergerac has been so successful in sensing such subtle shifts in women's psychology and the subliminal instincts that shape it. A multinational manager who probably would do as well selling steel ingots or instant pancakes, Bergerac was trained in the exacting school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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