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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the Tibetan spiritual leader referred to cars when he discussed the suffering induced by change in his speech Wednesday night in a packed Sanders Theater: "We have happiness when we first buy a car. But after we've had it for a while, we experience a great deal of suffering...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: A Lama on Wheels | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...pecked out lengthy sentences describing airplane take-offs, car transmissions and rifle barrels. And of course, he wrote about...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...behind him. It crushed him by the weight of its blow: the need for a plot. He left his typewriter and consulted the books in his den. Certainly one of them should provide a plot worth appropriating. He leafed through his books--all manuals. He had airplane manuals, car manuals, weapons manuals. And of course, a tattered sex manual. His head filled with story ideas, confidence renewed, he returned to his writing desk...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...MacDougald; 62. Earl Averill; 63. rented Chevrolet; 64. Jack Hamilton; 65. Paul Blair; 66. hurt hand while dunking basketball; 67. fear of flying; 68. pulled a hamstring playing hoop; 69. reserve clause litigation; 70. went down a swimming pool slide arm-first; 71. Dune buggy accident; 72. car accident; 73. airplane crash; 74. gunshot wounds as a result of duel in native P.R.; 75. asphyxiation; 76. leukemia; 77. knife wounds; 78. mysteriously disappeared after being let off train just before Niagara Falls bridge--body found in river days later; 79. killed by pitched ball; 80. Gary, IN; 81. Frank Duffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to 1979 Cube Baseball Quiz | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

They felt uneasy about me, about being close to me in a small car. I think they felt not exactly certain of what I might do next. And I knew they would not have felt better about it if I had told them I didn't have the faintest notion, either, of what I might do next, today, tomorrow, or ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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