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Word: vacationers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sailors once dreaded the blue Sargasso Sea, believing its gulfweed could entangle them forever. The protagonist of William McPherson's novel fears entrapment in other currents. Andrew MacAllister, 40, an American playwright, is lured by the danger of adultery while in London to open one of his plays. He feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Sensible is what Michael Stanley Dukakis, 53, is all about. If he were a magazine, it would be Consumer Reports. Dukakis is a man who cannot recall the last novel he read; he once took on a family vacation a book entitled Swedish Land-Use Planning. In his high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Duke of Economic Uplift | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Blackmun's Washington office had said Friday that Blackmun was recuperating from minor hernia surgery at his vacation home in Wisconsin. His office said he had been swimming and had taken walks after the hernia surgery and made no mention of cancer.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Justice Blackmun Treated for Cancer | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

However, people at Harvard may be all too willing to write off Razo as an isolated case. Officials are already quick to point out that Razo's alleged crime spree began before he entered Harvard and continued while the Kirkland House resident was on vacation. What a clever way to...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Minority Search for a Middle Ground | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

Pivot spends a minimum of 70 hours a week reading, making it a point to finish at least one book a day. In order to plow through more pages, he commutes to work by public transportation and when on vacation often asks his wife to drive. Besides being host of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Carson of the Literary Set | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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