Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nobody will know the difference. Despite the best efforts of Forman and his helpers to re-create the spirit of the '60s, the spirit of the '70s keeps intruding, striding through the day in bright blue Adidas. Too many telltale Perrier bottles, expensive French jeans, $30 blow-dry haircuts. And while 10,000 visitors to the Sheep Meadow this day at least try to recall a simpler age of love, peace and tolerance, hundreds of citizens who live near the park file complaints of one sort or another with the local authorities...
...playing into the hands of those who want to defeat the budget resolution. Leave it alone." But Stratton would not budge. Fumed Giaimo: "How the hell do you talk to Sam Stratton? He's going to say, 'The Russians are coming!' He's going to blow the bill out of the water." But, to Giaimo's surprise, most Democrats held firm, and the House defeated the Stratton amendment...
Still, their findings may deal the final blow to a proposal, heatedly debated since 1970, to triple the present amount of iron added to U.S. flour and breads. Americans now receive about 25% of their dietary iron from such products. The proposal has been endorsed by nutrition experts as a preventive against iron deficiency, especially in women. But hematologists, led by William Crosby of the La Jolla, Calif., Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, have steadily argued that on the basis of available information, an increase in iron is neither needed, effective nor safe...
Harry T. Levin '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, said yesterday that MacCaffrey's death "is a very serious blow to all of us," adding that MacCaffrey was a very devoted administrator...
Attempts at settling the Palestinian problem through conventional Arab armies in four fruitless wars and through international forums such as the U.N. and talks in Geneva have not solved the Palestinian refugee diaspora. The 1967 Arab defeat was the final blow that showed these embittered Palestinians that conventional Arab warfare was not an effective means by which to promote their cause, and that they must resort to independent commando action to make that cause audible...