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Word: turned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn, the family will produce witnesses who will contend that Silkwood had been too horrified by the contamination to have possibly caused it herself. The family concedes that it cannot prove who planted the poison, but suggests that someone was out to scare Silkwood-and had certainly succeeded. The Silkwood lawyers will also try to turn Kerr-McGee's argument against itself. If Silkwood could have slipped lethal quantities of plutonium out of the plant, they will ask the jury, does not that mean that any employee could do so? And would not that prove that the "highest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Poisoned by Plutonium | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Jane Doe," as she is called in the suit, was on her way to a friend's house in Chicago one evening last spring to watch Holocaust on television. Then she made an illegal left turn that was spotted by police, who turned her evening into a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Outrage in the Station House | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...carrying her driver's license. A computer check quickly revealed that she did indeed have a valid license, and she sent a friend who was with her to pick it up at home. But what seemed to be merely an annoying incident took a decidedly ugly turn. According to her lawyer, Jane Doe then went through an embarrassing series of events. She was led into a room by a police matron and ordered to strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Outrage in the Station House | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...successful, a large number of women may demand payment. The A.C.L.U. estimates that as many as 10,000 may have been strip-searched hi Chicago when apprehended for minor violations. Indeed, Chicago Precinct Captain William Connolly admits that the treatment given the Jane Doe who made the illegal turn represents "no apparent violation of long-established department directives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Outrage in the Station House | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Though Kani maintains that the Komiteh will eventually turn over most of its authority to an elected government and assume an "oversight" role, he made clear that any new regime would have to kowtow to the Komiteh's commands. If not, he said, "we will do what we did before." Did that mean that the Komiteh would go on ruling Iran in the Council's name? Kani's reply: "Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: You Are Weak, Mister | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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