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Word: surprisingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger's warning, which he later conceded might have been more floridly gloomy than he intended it to be, also contained a surprising personal admission: America's longstanding deterrent strategy based on all-out nuclear strike capability against Soviet population centers may have been ill-conceived in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Diagnosing The Defence of Europe | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

McLaughlin is one of those far-reaching business chiefs who think about a lot more than balance sheets. He is a big gun in the country's most socially aware and alert business community. Prodded by McLaughlin and others, 45 Minneapolis-area companies donate 5% of pretax profits to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Water, Water | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

This year the right hand of Joe Niekro, 34, is plenty big enough, and he has become one of the finest knuckleball pitchers in the game. Not only did he lead the National League in wins last week (18-9), but he had helped mightily to keep the surprising Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baffling Batters with Butterflies | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

The early season races went as they usually do for both squads--easily--the only real surprise coming when the Crimson stomped everyone in the San Diego Crew Classic. They went on to dispatch other opponents with surprising ease. Brown went first, then Princeton and MIT, where Harvard set a...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

A surprising portion of any publication is devoted not so much to what happened as to what presumably is about to. And not just in politics. Us magazine, a celebrity-watching fortnightly from the owners of the New York Times, promises "stories and pictures of what's going to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Obsessed by the Future | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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