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Word: 62nd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed an income tax of up to 91% on all revenues earned from oil pumped in Norwegian fields. Moreover, it has created a state-owned oil company, Statoil, that must be included as a partner in nearly all private drilling ventures. The government flatly forbids drilling north of the 62nd parallel, where most of the nation's 30,000 fishermen live and work. The fishermen fear that oil spills and giant rigs will destroy their fishing banks. Besides being the mainstay of the nation's economic prosperity-at least until the oil boom-the fishermen represent a potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unhappy Nordic Boom | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...plays later, McInally snared a Holt aerial just inches short of the goal line, setting up Harvard's first touchdown of the year and also establishing a new Crimson record, most career receptions, for the 6 ft. 6 in. senior. The grab, Mac's 62nd lifetime, eclipsed the old standard set by Carter Lloyd...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Crimson Gridders Squash Holy Cross In Opener | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...JUNE 2 of my sophomore year, the 62nd anniversary of Quentin Compson III's putting flatirons in his shoes and jumping off of the Anderson bridge, I spent the evening with a girl, who was then a close friend and was then from the South, reading Absalom, Absalom! for our English 700 exam (back then it was and it deserved to be called 700). We read to each other by the light of a street lamp on the bridge next to the secret plaque marking the spot from which Quentin was said to have jumped. Such dedication to Faulknerian trivia...

Author: By Walter S. Isaacson, | Title: Intrusion in the Dust | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

...music "radiates the love of this nation?patriotism." He flubbed an attempt at spinning a Yo-Yo given him by Country Music Star Roy Acuff and played God Bless America and Happy Birthday on the piano to honor his wife Pat, just back from South America, on her 62nd birthday. In a relaxed evening, there was no talk of his Watergate agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The President's Strategy for Survival | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...Marvin Barnes (seventh in the East with 41,820 votes), he is the leading New Englander, a good 10,000 votes ahead of B.C.'s Dan Kulcullen (50th), Holy Cross's Malcolm Moulton (53rd), Dartmouth's Bill Raynor (55th), UMass's Al Skinner (57th) and B.U.'s Kenny Boyd (62nd...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Fitzsimmons Scores Big in Pizza Hut Voting Even Though He Doesn't Play for Harvard | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

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