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Word: unlikelyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That plan went awry last year when Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith made a shrewd deal with three moderate black politicians to form an interim black-white government and prepare the country for his own version of black majority rule. That version enables the country's 212,000 whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Zimbabwe Dilemma | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

In Salisbury, government officials were greatly heartened by the Senate vote. Ian Smith called it "refreshing and hopeful," and the black Co-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kesiwe Malindi, declared, "I am confident that President Carter, himself a champion of human rights, cannot continue to ignore the welfare of Zimbabweans and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Zimbabwe Dilemma | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Barring an unforeseen blowup with Peking, the Republic of China will probably continue on its profitable and stable course for some years to come. Four things could upset this optimistic outlook and inspire Peking to resolve the Taiwan question. The first would be a declaration of independence by Taiwan, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAIWAN: Absorbing the Painful Blow | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

That odd sound coming from the direction of your dashboard is not your old engine purring, for once, like a silver fox. It's a little tune on the radio with a dash of scat, a hipster backbeat and a lyric that truly glides, laid down in a voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

She is too good to be just a fluke, too tender to pass completely for the street-wise character she likes to play in her songs, too unexpected and far too unlikely to be a product of some commercial calculation. Jones' sound, respect, gracefully oldtime, never turns antique. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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