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Word: willes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Daddy, put on your running shoes," suggested four-year-old Michel Trudeau logically. After all, Pierre Trudeau had just told sons Michel, Justin and Sacha and the rest of Canada something that had been anticipated since Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark's government lost a vote of confidence two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Robert E. Kaufmann, Harvard associate dean, on the university's $9,000 tuition, following one of the largest jumps in fees in 343 years: "We don't know if the increase will meet strong student resistance or not."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Those who do not yet know about her soon will. Hollywood tom-toms are all but nominating her for an Academy Award for her first screen role, in The Rose. The movie, the story of a doomed '60s rock star, is one of the few commercial hits of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

There in a colorless London house lives George Smiley, Master Spy (ret.). Resolutely out of style, fat as the Michelin tire man, he has long been cuckolded by his wife and betrayed by close associates. It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites. Not Smiley. Once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Act for the Circus Master | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Don't force the pieces, he warned himself. Store them away. Patience. But how to be patient when he had so little time? ... All his professional life, it seemed to Smiley, he had listened to similar verbal antics signalling supposedly great changes in Whitehall doctrine; signalling restraint, self-denial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Books, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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