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Word: knaves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Surprise, Triumph - and Controversy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...just see the author, eyes gleeming with menacing evil, sitting over his typerwriter and screaming, "Ha! Now Pulier will never understand it. Take that, knave...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Academia Nuts | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

NATURALLY, JACK FEELS pretty awful about the whole thing, seeing as it was his fault that Lilly ever got to touch the now stiffening unicorn in the first place. So with the help of a somewhat lustful fairy queen, the forest knave acquires the requisite set of used armor and hauls his butt over to a humungous oak tree, which serves as Evil's headquarters. His main goal is to save his girlfriend and the last remaining unicorn in the universe, both of which have been captured by the forces of darkness. If he fails, the sun will never rise...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...wife of Billionaire John Kluge, chairman of Metromedia, Inc. Last week the British press uncovered a part of her past that had eluded the careful perusal of Buckingham Palace. In the 1970s the former Patricia Rose had posed as a full-frontal nude for the raunchy British skin magazine Knave. It transpired that Mr. and Mrs. Kluge will be traveling abroad the night of the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...freedom was written on behalf of a press that was far more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave, Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Abraham Lincoln was termed a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla and a ghoul. Yet none of the nation's early leaders even attempted to sue, although some may have shared Benjamin Franklin's professed desire to balance "the liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Slander and Libel | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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