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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Constantine, the sandy-haired junior from International Falls, Minn., was the most sought-after high school goaltender in the nation four years ago. Cornell had an alumnus, Ken Dryden, call the 18-year-old and try to persuade him to do his collegiate thing with the Bid Red. RPI offered him a full scholarship and the chance to pursue an engineering career between saves at its less than aesthetic Troy, N.Y., campus...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Engineers Hand Icemen First Setback | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...scoreboard turned out to be only teasing Harvard, though. A bogus tripping call on freshman Mark Fusco (probably the only legal hip-check in the chippy contest) at 7:18 gave RPI a man advantage which reaped appropriately bizarre results...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Engineers Hand Icemen First Setback | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Just the mention of another Kennedy [Nov. 5] White House gives me a surge of hope and a sense of patriotism. Call it the Kennedy mystique or charisma, but I choose to call it that intangible quality, leadership, and a feeling of well-being that the citizens of this country have not had since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Amen-ide-ra and his woman Jora led four thousand desert tribesman in a successful revolt against a decadent, evil regime of Sheik lords. These two were essentially vagabonds of unusual wisdom. Their reign marked a golden era lost to historians. Eventually, Amen-ide-ra yielded to the call of the sands and, taking his sword and horse, rode into the sunrise. Jora and Amen saluted each other as one vagabond to another. Jora stayed to rule...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Dentists' Office Jazz | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

...gypsies are prepared to take further steps to underscore their grievances. One tactic under consideration: inviting arrest by tearing down signs barring gypsies from campsites in the hope that it might lead to a court ruling affirming the full equality of a people still searching for a place to call home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Nazis' Forgotten Victims | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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