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Word: clearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed a policeman who was on horseback, and the only path he could clear for us through the crowd was on cobblestones on the trolley track. We ran the last six miles over cobblestone following a horse's ass," he said, adding that he ran in "one dollar sneakers with 15 cent inner soles because there were no running shoes back then...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Grand, Old Runner | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...that there is a momentary lull in the outpouring of Watergate books, another legacy of the Nixon era needs closer scrutiny. This is the notion, propagated by Richard Nixon, that Government and the press have an adversary relationship. What Nixon meant by the phrase he made perfectly clear in a letter to Spiro Agnew during the 1968 campaign: "When news is concerned, nobody in the press is a friend-they are all enemies." But why the press should have seized upon the adversary description and proudly flaunted it ever since is harder to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Indegoddampendent Is Fine | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Perfectly Clear...

Author: By William J. Berry, | Title: Brokaw of 'Today Show' Says Journalists Are Folk Heroes | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...near-typhoon winds and 40-degree temperatures to this tableau and it becomes clear the Harvard golf team was not out for a stroll in the park...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Flag, Falter in Ivy Tournament | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...disagree strongly with some part of the document, it is best to look at it as a whole. Yet in this constitution, the most fundamental principle has been abused. I cannot support this kind of oppressive document either in terms of practicality or principle, and I think any clear-headed individual regardless of race or origin must feel the same way. I would rather see no student government at all than a government which is an embarassment to common intelligence and morality. Andy Berger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Ratios | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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