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Word: whose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans use plutonium 238, an isotope whose main radiation consists of alpha particles that cannot go through paper or clothing and would have to be swallowed or inhaled to be harmful to humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hot Spots in the Land of Sticks | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...First Amendment protects not just the right to advocate love and sunshine, but also the right to advocate racism, sexism and many other obnoxious things. To dramatize that point, the American Library Association, whose members are often in the center of such controversies, produced a film entitled The Speaker. The 42-minute color movie describes a fictional controversy that develops when a high school student committee invites a scientist to explain his belief that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. The speaker, who is never actually seen or heard, is finally banned by the school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hateful Ideas | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...talking about people who can chop wood like Carlton Fisk, the kind who've been mercilessly overrunning the streets, trampling the poor wasted troopers on their way to Harvard Pizza with their cross-country skis. I'm talking about the guys whose last game of anything was an emotional outburst of drunken nerf football between halves of the Super Bowl; whose last emergency was having to miss their scheduled beer runs during the second and third periods of Monday's Beanpot opener in order to watch John Hynes do his sprawling, miraculous Eddie Giacomin saves in the face of repeated...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Winter Sports | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...while obviously championing the members of the burgeoning class of laborers who are divorced from the means of production. Finch is simultaneously tapping the huge reservoir of power seething from the thousands of small landed proprietors whose chief concern is to protect the endangered agrarian lifestyle their fathers and their father's fathers led before them. As the waves of modernization lap just beyond their rickety barbed-wirse fences, these proud and fiercely independent farmers--no longer safely nestled far from civilization in the sparsely-populated Mississippi hill country--turn to a savior, or at least a defender...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Color-Blind Populism | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...Huskies finally converted a chance and tied the game with less than five and a half minutes to play. Mark Derby fed a pass down the right side to Holmes, whose wrist shot was artfully tipped by Wayne Turner into the upper left corner to make it 3-3 and set up the extra frame...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Roast Huskies in Beanpot, 4-3 | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

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