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Word: birthday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find a bottle of champagne of a 1966 vintage and sit down with the coed of your fancy and have one hell of a good birthday party! But beware of intoxicated, horny females. I am sure you are fully capable of handling the situation, but if you are caught or fail you know the consequences...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

Damn! My birthday is this weekend. So why am I so upset? I should be happy because I'll be 21 and that means I can imbibe alcoholic beverages in every state and rent a car. But I'm scared. I read last week in Newsweek (and nowhere else) that a Brigham Young University professor has found that over 40 per cent of stiffs kick within three months of their birthdays. Wouldn't you be apprehensive if after Sunday your chances of going to you final resting place (Fathers Six) were going to increase three-fold? If this column fails...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Witcover Uncovers | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...service for Lowell, who died last September, was part of a two-day observance of his birthday. Lowell, who was the Emerson Lecturer on English Literature, would have been 61 on Wednesday...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: University Holds Memorial Service For Robert Lowell | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

Yeah, right. Safire was the one who compared Nixon to a layer cake: Cut it from the top and you get all the different layers plus icing and Happy Birthday America, but go in from the side on a layer like Watergate and all you get is crumbs...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His Briefcase." | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...February 21, 1822--that auspicious day sandwiched between the official Washington's Birthday and the true date of Washington's birth--a scientist named Gibbs was born. Though he was not Gibbs-the-scientist, who garnered fame for his free energy equation, this Gibbs also achieved notoriety. This was the Wolcott Gibbs of the Gibbsians, a little known cult of fanatics not unlike the Moonies...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Gibbs Day: A Festival of Pseudoscience | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

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