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Word: yet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when words like fission, double-helix, and plutonium are on the tip of every layman's tongue, books about science, or better yet books by scientists, are a sure sell...

Author: By Jaime O. Aisenberg, | Title: A Minor Disturbance | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...detectives are checking the body against the files of two missing persons in an attempt to discover his identity. Police said yesterday they have not yet determined whether the death was a suicide, a homicide or an accident, adding an autopsy will be performed later this week. The body was found with lacerations on the stomach and abrasions on the head...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: MDC Police Seeking Identity Of Body Pulled From River | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...practicing vegetarian. By the age of two, I was exceptionally adept at avoiding the meat my parents continually poked in my direction. Receiving protein in the form of mangled flesh and sizzled blood vessels has never been my idea of nutrition. As to the argument of "faunaism," I have yet to dissect a plant and discover a brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...scene for possible civil war. The Ayatullah Khomeini, old and ailing, does not understand modern statecraft, diplomacy or administration. Jimmy Carter does not know how to deal with him; neither does anybody else. Says a European diplomat: "What can you do when faced with a mad geriatric case?" Yet this remarkable old man, and he alone, seems to possess the power to preserve his volatile country from total anarchy?and to free the rest of the American hostages in Tehran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...yet uncertain whether Beck can capitalize on his aggressive image and persuade regional offices to remedy the most flagrant instances of chemical pollution. Until he produces some substantive improvements, Americans can only hope that, if there is a hazardous waste dump in their neighborhood, it will not spring a leak...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

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