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Word: tans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would a hundred Saigon soldiers, outnumbered 5 to 1 and facing two T-54 tanks, fight ferociously to hold the strategically unimportant town of Phuoc Tan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Combat Profit | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...have become dimpled moonscapes of posteriors slowly ripening in the sun. There are other views. "If you got 'em, you should show 'em," crows Yolanda Davis, 20, a brown-breasted Tetonesque dancer who bathes in the buff at Venice. "There's nothing nicer than a totally tan body with no white stripes of civilization in between," philosophizes Peter Simon, 27, a freelance photographer on Martha's Vineyard. On a sunny Saturday the secluded dunes on Free Beach in Truro, Mass., reveal 500 bare beach bunnies of all ages. Defying the garment industry, New York vestiphobes invade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Nudity Problem | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Famed as the place where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church attracts many visitors. No one paid much attention when a short, chunky black man wearing a tan suit and thick glasses slipped into a seat a few feet from the organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third King Tragedy | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...idea of starting a new league, he quickly dropped his tax cases to barnstorm the country looking for prospective owners. In the hunt, Davidson coupled his penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen. In the final crunch of negotiation, they discover that he is a tough bargainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Brilliant Closer | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...suburban development of Briarmont, where handsome houses sprawl over huge lots arrayed along winding, tree-lined streets. One of the most attractive homes is a $35,000 three-bedroom ranch with avocado green paneling, a sunken living room and a two-car garage. A dark blue Cadillac and a tan Buick compact decorate the driveway. This is the home of J. Mason Davis and June Davis and their two children, the family on TIME'S cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two Families That Have Made It | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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