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Word: amateurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been conscripted as advisers to tell him how to do it. He had made us a council of his friends. Few sophisticated reporters today would let themselves be so trapped in confidence and thus barred from breaking a great story; but Eisenhower had more candidate skill than any amateur on first run I have ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...Yonkers marathon to test herself, survived the 26.2-mile course and was hooked. Now she averages 30 to 40 miles a week up New York's Riverside Park to the George Washington Bridge and back. She also trains and competes regularly on one of the best amateur women's teams in the country, the Greater New York Athletic Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Harvard Hillel. Jewish Coffee-House and Amateur Hour. Hillel House, 8:30 p.m. $1:00 admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Harvard Hillel. Jewish Coffee-House and Amateur Hour. Hillel House, 8:30 p.m. $1 admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...only game in town, some of us decided to add a happy note by placing Norman Thomas in nomination alongside the more obvious choices, such as New York's governer Al Smith, Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, and Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. You never saw such amateur but high-class skulduggery on all sides. The Smith adherents brought in a Boston political claque, which crowded into the balcony and roared every time Al Smith's name was uttered, a thing which proved counterproductive, I think. But this first hurrah added to the excitement. Tom Eliot (Class...

Author: By John Herling, | Title: Memories of a Half-Century of Change | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

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