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Word: vigilanteism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Now M & J apparently feel that the public is ready for their clinical findings on a more controversial form of sex: homosexuality. They can hardly be accused of rushing into print-the homosexual research project began in 1964 and the laboratory work was finished in 1968. The book reports on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Masters & Johnson on Homosexuality | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Ultraconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., 66, has dominated New Hampshire politics for three successive terms. In league with powerful right-wing Publisher William Loeb, Thomson has kept the Granite State free of both a sales tax and a personal income tax, the only place in the nation where neither levy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Down with Corruption | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

City Councilor Saundra Graham said that vigilant enforcement of the law requiring landlords to keep their front walks clear should improve conditions.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Endorses City Snow Policy | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

To curtail assaults on their history, Latin American governments have passed stiff new laws against smuggling, stepped up customs inspections and exerted pressure on other governments to cooperate in the fight against the thefts. The U.S., for its part, has made it illegal to import any pre-Columbian object without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Epidemic of Grave Robbing | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Stallone / Eszterhas / Jewison wanted to offend no one too much, and they end up offending everyone just a little. Johnny Kovak's commitment to the union becomes little more than a grand obsession after a while; stripped of his early idealism, Kovak becomes an inadvertently fascistic figure--ever-vigilant against...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The Rocky Road | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

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