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Word: taking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eldest daughter Kathleen, whom he fondly called Kay-Kay, was killed when her young husband came home one night and found her threatening suicide with a shotgun. When he tried to take it from her, the weapon went off. The death was ruled accidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Reagan is now rated as the front runner in Florida, but Connally will take advantage of his burgeoning bankroll and put a large part of it into that race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Governor James Thompson is being cultivated and allowed to envision himself as a potential Vice President. In April's Wisconsin and Pennsylvania primaries, Connally hopes to take on either

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Jordan has denied all the Studio 54 charges, and the case is hardly the kind Congress had in mind when it drafted the Ethics in Government Act. The law began to take shape after President Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Congress set out to specify in detail the powers and tenure of a special prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Heritage of Watergate | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova of the Bolshoi Ballet really wanted to go home or to defect with her husband, Dancer Alexander Godunov, may never be known in full. When Godunov, one of the most brilliant of Soviet ballet stars, made his rush to freedom, he did not-or could not-take her with him. Upholding U.S. law prohibiting forced repatriation, the State Department insisted on interviewing Vlasova to see if she wanted to join her husband. Belatedly, the State Department moved to keep her in the country by preventing her Aeroflot jetliner from taking off until, in the words of Deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Exit Stage Left | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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