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Word: whitely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world, the U.S. and the White House are different. Just how, we will begin to see when the tension now girdling the capital is finally eased, with or without tragedy. A new era is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...will hear fewer prayers and more verses of the Marine Hymn in the next year," says one member of the White House. Gibes a Marine officer: "That was always good music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...announcement of plans for a Marine Rapid Deployment Force. The current official vocabulary has to do with American bases abroad, overflight rights with friendly countries, aerial refueling capacity. The adrenaline is flowing, but there are some tough problems on the way back to first-class power. A red-faced White House is learning that a new airborne carrier may be needed for cruise missiles. The Administration is making embarrassed inquiries about a version of the B-1 bomber canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...this rate the gin martini may be embraced next by the Georgia White House. That's O.K. There is a body of opinion that the world worked better before men took to mineral water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

About a mile from Sabana Seca, the truck suddenly accelerated. It passed the bus, slowed, and forced the bigger vehicle to a halt beside a trash dump. Simultaneously, a white van that had been parked down the road came roaring toward the scene, and the blast of automatic weapons fire shattered the dawn silence. The fusillade from the white van lasted for 30 seconds-"a lifetime," said one survivor-and when it was over two U.S. sailors lay dead and ten others, including all of the women, were wounded. The dead were Petty Officer 1st Class John R. Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush at Daybreak | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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