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Word: bays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both teams are hunting for a victory. Oakland has missed the Bowl for the past nine years (they lost to Green Bay in the second Super Bowl), and Minnesota has lost three times in their three Bowl appearances...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: All This and Football Too... | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

After these laudable reforms would come White's political concessions, the changes for the city council, a group which presently has "almost, no redeeming value," according to Atkins. Back Bay State Representative Barney Frank '61 once described city council elections as a "lottery." With upwards of 20 or 30 candidates running for nine city-wide spots, the electorate is forced to rely on surface perceptions based on pseudo-issues such as "anti-busing" or "law and order." By not changing over to district elections White will increase the prizes and confusion without making the game any more legitimate...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

...Tampa Bay Buccaneers...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of '77: Should Old Acquaintance Etc. | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter's CIA appointment was perhaps his most surprising to date. Theodore C. (for Chaikin) Sorensen, 48, who was once President John Kennedy's top aide, has had virtually no experience in intelligence work or administration. After the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco, he harshly criticized the CIA for misleading the White House about the chances of the Cuban invasion-though he had gone along with the plan beforehand. The most plausible explanation for the appointment is that Sorensen came highly recommended, campaigned hard for the President-elect and will, by his very inexperience in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Odd Man In | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Catholic Church and became Pope Germanian I. As a result, the world is essentially Catholic, with the massed forces of the "devilish Turk" held at bay in Constantinople and points south. A lone bastion of Christian heresy remains-the Republic of New England, a broad land stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and peopled chiefly by felons and savages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood of the Lamb | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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