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Word: tip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to wonder if they'll come riding in on steers, twirling their lassoes, yip-yip-yipping away and dribbling behind their backs while wrestling a helpless 250-lb. calf to the ground--all in the tip-off circle...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Whoa! It's Longhorn Time | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tried to answer some of these questions during an extraordinary debate in the House. She said Britain's intelligence chiefs had not wished to tip off Blunt's former employers in Moscow that he had been caught by removing him from his royal curatorship. The security service had told the Queen's private secretary that Blunt was thought to be a Soviet agent; the secretary, however, was also advised that the Queen should not seek to remove him. Beyond that, Thatcher said, "the immunity was offered to Blunt to get information on Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Next a thin wire, covered with plastic except at its tip, is passed through the endoscope and positioned in the papilla, the nipple-like opening to the bile duct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Shah's Galling Gallstone | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...nice that House Speaker Tip O'Neill thinks it "sinful" that the oil companies are making profits [Nov. 5]. At least they are doing something to help keep this country running. Can Congress say the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Freedom Festival angers me-not because you ran the article, but because such groups as the Christian-Patriots Defense League exist at all and have the gall to use the name Christian. This league can only be Christian if Christ said, "Shoot those who hate you and tip over the desks of those who spitefully use you." I think they must know quite a bit more about their rifles than their Bibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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