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Word: tearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliant man who has stood up. There're a lot of brilliant men around--Nader, Galbraith, Gardner--but they didn't want to take the abuse. Stanley's been a brilliant thinker for industry--he invented the Reader's Digest insert of the flag decal that you can tear out and put on car windows. He has a brilliant, inventive and practical mind, with an ability to articulate brilliant ideas very simply...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: 'The People Have Spoken, the Fools' | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

This follows in the New Hampshire tradition of "political" primaries, of William Loeb, the kike-teaser, the publisher who turned steadfast Edmund Muskie into a tear-filled bundle of Ibogaine-scotted nerves on a flatbed truck in 1972. But this primary is greater than William Loeb, who incidentally has gone so far to remove his image of slander-mongerer as to publish Democratic candidates' press releases largely uncut and unedited. The 1976 primary's rhetoric is too thick, fast and furious for Loeb to pin any one candidate down--although it is to Birch Bayh's credit that...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: The Crowd Pleasers | 2/24/1976 | See Source »

...point Bailey asked his client if she could estimate the number of times that S.L.A. members had threatened to kill her if she did not cooperate. "Hundreds of times," she answered, brushing away a tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...appointment, People's Daily published its most violent polemic in years-an attack on the large group of bureaucrats, Teng chief among them, who had been restored to power since their disgrace during the Cultural Revolution. "Before it is too late," urged the editorial, "go and tear down their masks, arrest the black hands that have attacked the proletariat, and seize hold of the tails of these foxes who push for the restoration of capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Seizing Hold of the Foxtails | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...premenstrual irritability by overlooking women's positive feelings and focusing on negative ones. Her advice to women: "Learn to identify premenstrual physical changes as irrelevant to emotion." Some women add several pounds of fluid because of hormone changes. If so, says Koeske, "Say 'Water retention makes my tear ducts feel full,' not 'I am depressed and about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Culture and the Curse | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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