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Word: illicit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the border patrol frankly admit that they only apprehend a small fraction of the people entering illegally. And those caught, if determined to become illicit American residents, can try again and again until they make it through the obstacle course set up by the U.S. government...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Invisible Borders, Visible Problems | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Other Freudians say that because women traditionally associate the open streets with prostitutes and the danger of rape, agoraphobia can be a coded fantasy for illicit sex, a replay of the child's sexual attraction to her father during the Oedipal stage (starting around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Panic of Open Spaces | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

With rhetoric once reserved for the likes of prostitution and child labor, America's often divided churches have united to assault a new public vice. "Television dumps into our homes a steady stream of illicit sex, casual violence, alcohol promotion, materialism, vulgarity," declared a resolution passed by 15,000 members attending the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The tough words are being backed by action, with the Baptists, and others, launching long-range educational programs and citizens' campaigns to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: If the Eye Offend Thee | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang for porn-entitled The Heart of a Young Girl graphically details the sexual adventures of a city woman dispatched to work on a commune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: No to Maoism | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...current chancellor insists that Bhajan "lives in a moderate manner," and asserts that reports of illicit affairs and of women in the yogi's bedroom are "absolutely untrue." Yogi Bhajan himself was unwilling to grant TIME an interview until he visits India this month with a group of disciples for a Sikh festival. When he arrives there, the "Supreme Authority" of the Sikh religion in the Western world may have to answer a few questions from his fellow Sikhs about the kind of religion he is preaching-and practicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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