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Word: writs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradually she began to see David again, but always under the watchful eye of family members. In 1973 she asked that he be told that she was his natural mother and had a writ of habeas corpus served on Dolph. After Dolph failed to produce the boy for testing before the question of custody could be settled, he was sent to jail. Teddy also refused to comply with the court order and, before going to jail herself, told Micah and Peter Yee, 15, a storefront regular picked up by the family in a nearby park, to hide David. In October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MYSTERIES: Where's David? | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...well-balanced treatment of an important theme. I wish you had given some space to the query "How true is the New Testament picture of the Pharisees?" The holy season would have been a good time to set the record straight on the Pharisees, whose vilification in Christian holy writ constitutes one of the most heinous libels in history, as many Christian scholars are now attesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 13, 1975 | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...LIVING BIBLE (1971). Scorned by purists for taking liberties with the text, this paraphrase by Evangelical Kenneth Taylor popularizes Holy Writ. It has sold nearly 19 million copies, many of them in supermarkets and dime stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A BIBLE BUYER'S CATALOGUE | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...long been recognized that drinking and driving do not mix, but many pot smokers believe that marijuana has little effect on their performance behind the wheel. They are dead wrong, according to Harry Klonoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Brit ish Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. Writ ing in Science, Klonoff describes how he and his associates tested 64 volunteers to determine how pot puffing affected their driving. The test subjects-all between the ages of 19 and 31-were well educated and were also experienced drivers. They were asked to drive through a complex course that included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPSULES: Pot and Performance | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Habe: writ of habeas corpus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Prison Patois | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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