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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones: No, they didn't. [Apparently to pacify the woman, Jones said he would try to check with the Russians, but doubted it would help.] To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed. It's not worth living like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Jones: I've tried to keep this thing from happening. But I now see it's the will of sovereign Being that we lay down our lives in protest against what's been done. If they come after our children, and we give them our children, then our children will suffer forever. [Cultists returning from the airstrip tell Jones that Congressman Ryan has been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hurry, My Children, Hurry | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...worked out fine. Although Gene missed his hookup with Schlosser, he did manage to pass the documents fancily to his plummeting wife. Three minutes later the couple made a perfect landing. "Almost everything in our marriage was done around skydiving, so the divorce in the air seemed the natural thing to do," Lynda explained. Watching it all from the ground was Gene's bride to be, Lorraine Ahern. She jumps out of airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Falling Out of Love | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last week with the magazine Stern, she attributed the impending divorce to "not just one reason but an accumulation of things." The main thing seemed to be Brandt's six-month-long involvement with Brigitte Seebacher, 32, a political assistant. Fumed former State Secretary Egon Bahr: "At Brandt's age, what nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Brandt's Breakup | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...grandson of brandy makers from the town of Cognac, Monnet learned as a youth that masterworks are not accomplished by shortcuts. He deftly summed up this truth: "The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to waitman proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side." He began his career as a globetrotting salesman for the family's distillery. Witnessing the chaos and waste of World War I convinced him of the need for international cooperation. By 1916 Monnet had become France's representative in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Father of a Larger Community | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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