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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are probably wrong. Smith and the white minority of 240,000 who rule over Rhodesia--and over the nearly six million Africans who reside within its boundaries--have beaten the odds for 13 years, and they are doing their darndest to stay in power. True, Rhodesia is closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Rhodesia: Old Smithie Hangs On | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...loan plan, labelled the "Cambridge Option" by O'Brien, would allow tenured faculty--whose average income was about $40.000 last year--to purchase homes closer to campus with special mortgages at 6 per cent interest and 40-year terms...

Author: By Lino D. Tontodonato, | Title: Harvard Will Provide Tenured Faculty $2 Million in Low-Interest Loans To Purchase Homes In Cambridge | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...those on the ground, the jumpers are hard to see at first as they pour from the plane, but within three or four seconds you can spot them, the sun reflecting off their jumpsuits as they cluster. They become larger, better defined as they fall closer-8,000 ft., 6,000, 4,000. Then the star bursts apart as each person turns by banking his body against the onrushing wind and tracks away from the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catch a Falling Snowflake | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...members of the company would draw half-salaries both from the Rep. and from the University--both "do" and "teach" simultaneously. Nevertheless, the University should demand rigid contractual agreements from Brustein and his staff to pay equal, if not more than equal, attention to undergraduates. One proposal worth closer attention is for each professional to serve as a House tutor in drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Brustein Affair | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...beat for reckless honesty and his own kind of compound romanticism, which can veer sharply from sentimental to sulfuric at the bend of a lyric. Dylan both mocked and gloried in his informal ordination as a generation's prophet. Young, fully as ambitious in his music, kept closer to the ground than Dylan and sneaked into rock's pantheon like a highwayman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan and Young on the Road | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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