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Word: bettering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell you something, though. Don't ever bet," the chattering patriarch spurted, his countenance growing more serious. "Don't ever bet. I've seen people ruined. It'll get you. You're young and you can do better things with your money. It'll ruin you, though. You're not an expert like me, and I wouldn't even touch the stuff...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's Home | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

...military fatigue hats. They were like South American guerillas, but badly organized. The gates to the concert were opened later than even the organizers expected, causing a massive pileup of people who arrived early hoping to get the best of the general admission seats. "People's Security" was much better at protecting Marley...

Author: By Christopher J. P. damm, | Title: RADiCAL BOOGiE | 7/24/1979 | See Source »

...have repeatedly objected, calling the trial a "media event" and warning of prejudice to jurors in other courts where Bundy must still stand trial. But Miami Judge Edward Cowart was unmoved. He told TIME: "Cameras haven't impacted procedures the way some felt they would. It's better to have photographers in the courtroom than running up and down the halls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Cameras in the Courtroom | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Best Little Whorehouse in Tex as. No one who is out for an evening of fun will have a better time on all of Broad way. Racy in language but bawdily in nocent, the show is a treat in book, song and dance, and the choicest treat of all is Henderson Forsythe as the sheriff and Carlin Glynn as the madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Summer Fair | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...years ago, an editor of the Washington Post ordered pearson's columm banished to the comic pages, " where it belongs." Several years ago, the post offered to put Anderson's columm on its more prestigous Op-Ed page, but Anderson, who figures that the comic page is better read, declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Muckraking Is Sometimes Sordid Work | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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