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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken me a little over two years of Harvard to get to this point. What will two more years do? And what about 25? Will I eventually turn into one of those gray-haired, Harvard-tie-wearing alumni who sit in the front row and munch caviar while cheering on the old alma mater every year...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Can't Help Being Bourgeois | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...feel that everyone who disagreed with what the government did should support their dissent with action--should turn their back on China in whatever way they...

Author: By Eliza Rosenbluth, | Title: Choosing Culture Over Politics | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...reputation. They have since become the staple of a prolific calendar and poster industry. But when the overripe irises and hollyhocks first appeared, the critics were intrigued, the public scandalized, the artist discomfited. When an interviewer remarked that the blossoms resembled female genitalia, O'Keeffe ordered her to turn off the microphone and refused to speak about "such rubbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...biography of O'Keeffe -- including this massive one -- is really an elaboration of the message she sent a student back in 1924: "Making your unknown known is the important thing -- and keeping the unknown always beyond you. Catching, crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life -- only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead -- that you must always keep working to grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback, said he will turn over the posts of chairman and CEO on March 1 to Harold Poling, 64, a vice chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Low On Gas | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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