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Word: backe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read, "Don't ask me to think--I was hired for my looks." Tall, blond, and paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn't see you in a strip joint on 42nd Street...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...following the cross," Ippolito said after the game. "A girl deflected it, I couldn't get back quick enough, and it went...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Princeton Purrs Past Stickwomen, 1-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...three threads that most clearly extend back to the early days of Harvard are grumblings about food, concern about townies and pranks...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The College Reaches 343rd Birthday, But Nobody Celebrates--Or Even Knows | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

While president of Harvard, Henry Dunster was once called back from a journey to Concord by an urgent messenger who reported that some students had actually succeeded in raising the devil. Dunster dealt harshly with Satan--he blew up a pile of gunpowder in the Yard to exorcise the devil...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The College Reaches 343rd Birthday, But Nobody Celebrates--Or Even Knows | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Faculty members did speak up when CUE debated the Core Curriculum last year, Henderson observes. "When the Harvard national image is at stake," he rightly reasons, the Faculty finds its voice. But when it comes to purely student issues such as study abroad, faculty members slip back into the background...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Missing CUE | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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