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Word: unlikelyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given an arbitrary height of 300 ft. at which to fly, the distance traveled in 90 sec. would be a mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1977 | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

To be sure, the thin half-smile he wore as flashbulbs assailed him was infuriating. But the paunch, the round and smooth face, the short, curly hair and calm manner all seemed far from menacing. Rather than sinister, Berkowitz looked innocuous, an unexceptional figure unlikely to attract attention anywhere. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

The Geneva Conference on Middle East peace, which was recessed in 1974, has since assumed the mystique of some diplomatic Camelot: in Geneva, some day, somehow, Israelis and Arabs will shake hands, sit down together and hammer out a permanent agreement ending 29 years of constant tension and frequent all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Elusive Camelot | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Creation of the "Witteveen facility," as the emergency pool has already been dubbed, will greatly expand the IMF's rapidly growing importance as lender of last resort to countries about to go on the rocks -and demander of unpopular economic steps that nations must take to qualify for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: The Lender of Last Resort | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Shooting, bombing, kidnaping, they blazed through West Germany like a latter-day Bonnie and Clyde-and evoked much the same combination of fear and morbid fascination. Ulrike Meinhof was a skilled but emotionally insecure Hamburg writer; Andreas Baader was a pampered Mama's boy. Together, this unlikely couple, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Like Father | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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