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Word: unlikelyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the Pentagon, nearly 11% of the 74,888 people who joined the Marines in the past two years have been discharged for reasons, ranging from medical disabilities to drug abuse, that should have disqualified them at the time of their enlistment. Congress could solve the problem by bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Too Few Men | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

The husband can't walk with a broken leg. The doctor? He had a motive, which Poirot overheard while eavesdropping, but he seems too weakwilled to kill. The Marxist--who Poirot heard saying in a just world Ridgeway "would be killed as a warning to the others"--possible, but unlikely...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

If the Cardinals in conclave again try to find their compassionate shepherd from within the ranks of Italian pastors, they will have their work cut out for them. The Patriarchate of Venice, left open by Pope John Paul, stands empty. Giovanni Cardinal Colombo, Arch bishop of Milan, will be 76...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: The September Pope | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson's bestselling immorality tale about his mother's lesbian affairs and his father's homosexual proclivities, schooled American readers in the eccentric love lives of the English aristocracy. Nicolson's mother, Vita Sackville-West, belonged to one of England'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Had the score been published when it was originally composed, people might first have gone wild about Eubie in 1899 when he wrote Charleston Rag. In that selfsame year Scott Joplin turned out Maple Leaf Rag. Eubie had an unlikely background for a composer. The son of ex-slaves, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hot Feet, Vamps and Ragmatazz | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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