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Word: banishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fall carries with it the charm, if that is the word, of politics. Great names are made and broken in October and November, and the making and the breaking is usually enough to banish the doldrums of summer. Certainly the process produces surprises. If apathy and doldrums still lingered in late September, Ed King banished them...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

That do corrupt my air, I banish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Class War | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...internal woes, the quality of play in the decade since tennis went open has become the best in the history of the game. No longer are players required to banish themselves from the top tournaments in order to earn an honest living. Kramer remembers: "If you took money under the table, you were violating IRS regulations, but the minute you did it honestly and legally, you were out of the big tournaments. It was a cruel system. You'd win Wimbledon and the next time you'd go back, you couldn't get into the locker room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Take all those factors, banish them forever, and there's still one major consideration before bringing a car to Harvard: parking. Parking at Harvard is no simple matter. It is neither inexpensive nor convenient. In fact, it can often be a harrowing experience...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: You Can't Pahk Yah Cah In Hahvahd Yahd, But... | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Newly written polydox texts for children banish Bible stories as unedifying and untrue. Youths are taught that Abraham did not enter the Promised Land be cause of a covenant with God but because of a drought in Ur. Instead of the bar mitzvah (son of the commandments) rite, the polydox now use the baal mitzvah (master of the commandments), signifying that a youngster is able to decide for himself what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jews with Nobody to Worship | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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