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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Competition for the movie's worst moment is fierce. Young's recurring character, a hippie graduated from college, wandering the roads, the deserts and beaches with grimy diploma and tattered cap and gown in hand, is a symbol--do you get it?--of America's unfulfilled youth. Picture, if you can, the affluent but over-schooled, over-technologized, overburdened young man cast from the best university like a body thrown from a car--which occurs on screen, believe it or not--into a landscape where society has eroded nature's richness. No one gives him directions. No one gives...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Bum Voyage | 10/24/1973 | See Source »

...York Mets knotted the World Series against the A's in Oakland yesterday on three unearned runs in the 12th inning to win the second game, 10-7, and to cap a marathon contest fraught with errors and marked by one significant close call...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Mets Even Series With 10-7 Victory Over Oakland A's | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...time." Nixon visibly paled, while sandwiched among the press corps, Tuck was laughing at the stunt he had improvised. One day Nixon was in the middle of a whistle-stop speech on his campaign train when it suddenly pulled out of the station. Tuck, donning a railman's cap, had signaled the engineer to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Man Who Bugged Nixon | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Since 1959, Dixon has travelled all over the world, singing and performing the blues. A black man who lived during slavery might have had the blues over the slave master raping his wife. His song might have been, "Cap'n, Cap'n, you better leave my woman alone/ If you don't Death Valley's be gonna be your home." Dixon feels that wars, police brutality, riots, dope, and pollution are giving people the blues now. "A lot of people have the blues and they don't even know it," he says, "(because) everybody is dissatisfied with conditions...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Willie Dixon's Blues Alive in White World | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

...been Bakers in that part of Appalachia, where coal mining, lumbering, dairy farming - and poverty - are a way of life Young Baker was strongly influenced by his maternal grandmother, known as Mother Ladd, who succeeded her late husband in 1927 as sheriff of Roane County. She gained notoriety for cap turing two armed bootleggers singlehanded. Now 93, she boasts: "Howard Henry is just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Man Who Keeps Asking Why | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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