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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there," says a student guard. He points to the fence beyond which innocent-looking woods and fields stretch away through southern Michigan. The only authorized way in proves to be a shuttle bus. Bearing two Chrysler engineers and an average American car owner, pitifully eager for any word of mileage efficiency to come, it cruises along winding roads with nothing except trees in view. Nothing, that is, until the road opens on a vast stretch of black tarmac, 67 acres of it, set in the hills near Milford, a GM proving ground. Right in the middle, three circus-like tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: A New Fuels Paradise | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...cruise missiles [July 30]. What is going on there is not science but technology and engineering. Science deals with the acquiring of new knowledge. The use, including misuse or ill use, of that knowledge is the realm of politicians, engineers and technologists. Uncritical association of the word science does not help the public to recognize the profound issue involved here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sparkling Youth | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...John F, Leavitt, red and white, constructed from the oak and pine of the Maine forest, is the fulfillment of Ackerman's dream, but he resents that description. The very word suggests impracticality, something Ackerman wants no part of. "Would it seem like a dream to you if you bought a new truck?" he asks. Is he the forerunner, the leader in something new, something that could become a trend? "Nah," he sneers in a New Hampshire twang. "If a lot more schooners are built, it will be because a lot of people independently came by the same conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Bold Launching into the Past | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...nights spent in New York City's Pierre hotel. Last year, he took a woman friend on a trip to Peking as an official interpreter at E.C. expense and over Budget Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat's objections. Though the woman was multilingual, she happened to speak not a word of Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUNITY: Luxury-Loving Eurocrats | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...Carlos Castaneda. It is as central to Adams' photography as it is to O'Keeffe's painting, or further back to the landscapes of Yosemite and Yellowstone painted by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and their followers in the 19th century. An entire tradition of seeing is inherent in the word wilderness; it is essentially romantic. As Szarkowski has observed, "Adams' pictures are perhaps anachronisms. They are perhaps the last confident and deeply felt pictures of their tradition . . . It does not seem likely that a photographer of the future will be able to bring to the heroic wild landscape the passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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