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Word: willingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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So it probably should have been anticipated that the practitioners of such a vital art form would finally do what they did last week and proclaim several days before Jimmy Carter left for Germany that the Bonn economic summit was, in effect, over-and it was a washout. From the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Politics of Amazing Grace | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

No one is willing to argue with that post-Waterloo appreciation-not in Britain, where gambling of every variety is not so much diversion as obsession. From the dowdy bingo parlors of Clapham Junction to the nobby casinos of Mayfair, the British now spin the wheels of chance to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: In the Chips | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

One top Administration official concedes that the White House does not have real links or leverage with labor. Says he: "We have much better lines to businessmen. They seem more willing to talk and to act, up to a certain point. Labor is more suspicious and thinks that we'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Labor Looks to Some Big Gains | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

He is also willing to allow some modern conveniences into his Eden. When his wife makes butter, she uses a blender in stead of a churn. "If I were to move to an old-fashioned farm," Perrin writes, "and could bring just one piece of modern machinery with me, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Pastoral | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

They had a pleasant long chat, during which they agreed that the state of affairs in the world had taken a turn for the worse since the early 1970s. The were both pleased that the Indochina War had ended, but they acknowledged that evil was still widespread--and people seemed...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Elizabeth Butterfield (1913 - 1978) | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

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