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Word: tics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many business people regard the tac tic as a form of secondary boycott and possibly illegal. Nonsense, says Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Weapon for Bashing Bosses | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...that was impossible. But there I had him. I had asked Harrison Forman to accompany me to Chiang's office, for he had photographs of famine conditions. His pictures clearly showed dogs standing over dugout corpses. The Generalissimo's knee began to jiggle slightly, in a nervous tic. He took out his little pad and brush pen and began to make notes. He asked for names of officials; he wanted more names; he wanted us to make a full report to him, leaving out no names. In a flat manner, as if restating a fact to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...hours at an actors' workshop on an afternoon when everyone is noodling with death scenes. One reason the film lacks conviction is that the script is loaded with melodrama. Rosa is not simply a dear old party, she is made to be a survivor of Auschwitz, an agnos tic Jew who clings to the ceremonies of her religion in a basement shrine. Momo is not just an abandoned child; he is the son (as one of the film's stagier scenes reveals) of a psychotic pimp who murdered the child's prostitute mother. Momo and Rosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Even an Oscar Would Weep | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...first: a skull described as "unusually long and narrow ... jawbone lacking." It fetched ? 1,650 ($3,200) last week from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, which decided in 1960 that the skull is almost certainly that of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 18th century Swedish scientist and mys tic. His writings and visions form the heart of the 50,000-member Swedenborgian religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Skull and Bones | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...relatively simple mechanical routine. In April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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