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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestible. It's not just that we cry at the ends of movies, and wonder what Dirty Harry will do now that he'd tossed his badge after Scorpio face down outside a potash mine. We'll believe circles that don't meet end to end. In the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT they can't figure out why we recognize a letter in almost anyone's handwriting, or why we abstract a smile-face as a face at all. Nobody knows why we believe animation.Kathy Rose [left] addresses one of her rebellious characters in 'Pencil Bookings...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...wonder whether it is candid or intellectually honest to call these rights universal when the underlying assumptions grow out of a history of intellectual thought developed in the North Atlantic basin," Ferguson said...

Author: By Cecily Deegan, | Title: Panelists Say Carter's Policy on Human Rights Cannot Apply to Underdeveloped African Nations | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...journalists and other sources. As serious is the possibility of the magazine's incorrectly identifying an agent. Said one senior CIA official: "Whether or not the people they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they get their money. It would help if those who worry about CIA activities would direct the same attention to those who work so hard to tear us apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Deadly Crusade | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps this was because the lyrics to -" Denver's hit, Take Me Home, Country Roads, were printed in Chinese on the program. No wonder, since one of the lines goes, "Drivin' down the road I get a feelin'/ That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday." When it came time to head home himself, Teng found some gifts loaded onto his plane at Seattle: 100 copies of Denver's latest album, courtesy of the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...makes me wonder if what we're doing is really worthwhile," Epps said...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Consumer Committee Disputes Corporation's Boycott Policy | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

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