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Word: bags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreman is at his powerful peak. With legs as thick as railroad ties and arms that resemble oak limbs, the 6-ft. 3-in., 225-lb. (fighting weight) Foreman is the most feared puncher since Sonny Listen. After a few blows from Foreman, the average heavy punching bag begins to look like a pancake. So do most of his opponents; none of his last eight fights have gone beyond the second round. Says his trainer, Dick Sadler, a shrewd old boxing hand who once managed Listen: "Anything George hits, he's gonna hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Violent Coronation in Kinshasa | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...greatest snowfall, a lone figure trudged down Plympton St. and into The Crimson building. Placing his overstuffed briefcase in the downstairs office, the man turned up his collar and announced he would return after running several errands. An hour later, Robert Fuller Duncan '12 snatched up his beaten leather bag, climbed three flights of stairs and spent the rest of the morning in a tiny, cluttered office politely cajoling former Crimson editors into contributing money for a new press. The former Crimson president was 84 years old, but the undergraduates who worked with him could barely keep up. A week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R.F. Duncan | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

...dollars you can stop off at the Pro before your meal and purchase the wine of your choice. Since this is a common occurrence at Grendel's, you will be provided with wine glasses and a corkscrew as soon as you reach into the paper bag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bars And the Like | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Test Miles. Automakers contend that test data are still insufficient to prove the safety and reliability of air bags. Transportation Department experts disagree. They contend that hundreds of accidents involving air-bag-equipped autos have conclusively shown that bags protect drivers from serious injury even in high-speed crashes. They also claim that tests have banished two early fears about the bags: that they would inflate accidentally when there was no collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAFETY: A No to Belts and Bags | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

That still is likely. The House bill must go to conference with the Senate, which passed a bill that said nothing about either belts or bags. The probable result is a compromise under which the seat belt-interlock system would be banished, but the mandatory air bag would be retained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAFETY: A No to Belts and Bags | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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