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Word: ahold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future," says Robin Schmidt, vice-president for government and community affairs. Schmidt grouses: "if it gets into the political process six weeks before a local election," he says, it could impair rational consideration of the issues. City Hall observers fear that if City Council candidates get ahold of this, "all hell will break loose...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Dumping Off Harvard's Waste---Radioactive, That Is | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Excited yet? Well, neither was anybody else. But all of a sudden, in the second half, something--and it wasn't the ghost of Arnie Needleman--got ahold of the Crimson, and inspired play began to flourish at both ends of the court. Chief catalysts were Rogers, 19 pts., Irion, 18 pts., and Bob Hooft...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.C. Stifles Cagers' Comeback, 75-71 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...natural state is happy. It is society (culture, laws, social expectations) that makes him unhappy. Psychologist Fitzhugh Dodson writes in The You That Could Be: "Our society . . . grabs ahold of these spontaneous, loving, self-confident toddlers . . . and makes them into caricatures of the persons they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Coping with How-to-Cope Books | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Brian Campbell got ahold of another unattended rebound at 5:23 of the second period to make it 2-0, before Swift's 40-footer buzzed past VanDerMark to narrow...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Late Crimson Rally Catches Cornell Icemen, 3-3 | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...unfortunate circumstances which surround the Harvard and Radcliffe students are as integrated as the corporate bureaucracy could possibly create: Questions (specifically in Chem 20) are a mark of the student's stupidity, only stylized rhetoric affirming the bias of course administrations is acceptable as independent thought, and students grab ahold of Harvard's "brand" name and distinguished institutions (e.g., the Pudding) as the last thread of an identity. The problem is that this is not a school, it is a corporation. The school is run for the corporation and not the reverse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNEQUAL ADMISSIONS | 4/12/1974 | See Source »

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