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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was certainly a sense in Middle East capitals that more than mere military hardware was at stake in the Senate. Declared Sadat: "The true value of the deal does not lie in the "number or types of planes approved but in overcoming a situation created by the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: F-15 Fight: Who Won What | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...especially, tend to come in bunches. One group in a company seems to get all the fires--it will get a three-alarm, have all the fires for a few weeks and then get another three-alarm to end the cycle. He said that it probably was not statistically true but it always seemed to happen that...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: The Dark Side of Cambridge: A Night With Rescue | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...well; she demands special behavior from Momo, and the more he complies the more obvious her special attention to Momo at the expense of the other children becomes. As he grows older not only does he become more convinced that what his Moslem mentor Monsieur Hasil says is true--to live you have to love something or someone--and he begins to focus that love on Madame Rosa...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Substance Over Form | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...mile-long coastline, its population is generally estimated at only about 5 million.* Now, for practically the first time in their history, the Saudis have something worth defending. As Saudi government officials never tire of saying, their country is virtually unprotected. It is probably true that never has so much been defended by so little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Desert Superstate | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...like Wicker's daily columns, is honest, pertinent-and excruciatingly self-evident. After a long retelling of his experiences covering election campaigns, for instance, he concludes weakly that "in modern times, it seems to me, the so-called 'media'-television pre-eminent among them-provide the true arena of politics ... That is the fundamental reason for the decline of party in American politics." Such vintage bromides frequently obscure Wicker's talent for seeing the human cartoon and the irony that resides in American politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bromide Beat | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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