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Word: swirles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found themselves welcomed with astounding warmth and joy by Egyptians. Near Alexandria, the Defense Ministers of Egypt and Israel met to discuss military maps. Now Menachem Begin had proposals. They would talk, face to face, said Sadat. Where? At Sadat's rest house near Ismailia. Each day brought its swirl of events, its new initiatives, its new improbabilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Anwar Sadat: Architect of a New Mideast | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...this is not to say that Les Sauvages has no charm. Somehow in the midst of the dizzying swirl of traffic and rain, perfume industrialists and mango trees, a few beautiful moments manage to emerge. When Nelly (the crazy blonde) and Martin (the former perfume magnate) are alone on the island, he calls her up on the phone that connects two straw huts to invite her to dinner and she insists that she is really much, much too busy. She is eating a peach and thumbing absentmindedly through an old magazine. When we discover that Martin is not just...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Screwballing Amidst the Mango Trees | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

...couch, the label up: "Hart Schaffner & Marx, A. Cohen & Sons, Americus, Ga." The walls ripple with impressionism. Behind his chair is Childe Hassam's Flag Day, and to his right another Hassam, Old House at Easthampton. Near the door, Niagara Falls plunges silently, a swirl of delicate blues and pinks in an oil by John Twachtman. Fronting the desk is a huge painting of Rosalynn and Amy from the days in the Georgia statehouse, simple, almost ethereal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Impressions of Power and Poetry | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...hieroglyphs" out of a chaos of line. The dark hats that emerge become, like printed words, a representation of "men in the street." Among the hatted males, a woman, defined by her dark hair, heavily shadowed eyes, and full-lipped mouth, stands alone. The outlines suggesting the passing men swirl around her, movement impressed on the air. Kirchner has drawn the people out of their motion--the image is a time exposure of both the scene depicted and the process of depiction...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Chronicles of a Crossing | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...filled with deodorant, hair spray or whatever. "The breakthrough is in the valve," says Abplanalp. Aerosol valves have one duct through which the fluorocarbon-product mix passes. Aquasol has two ducts: one for the butane, one for a mixture of water and the product. They meet in a swirl chamber where, says Abplanalp, "the gas kind of explodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: Son of Aerosol | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

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