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Word: colded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal "basis" for the government's censorship is the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, a Cold War relic that prohibits the release of "all data" concerning nuclear technology. A vague and probably unconstitutional act, it has lent itself to selective and capricious government enforcement, and should be revised or repealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Last | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

Faced with the prospect of a winter with expensive heating oil in short supply, the Cambridge City Council last night approved a series of emergency measures designed to stave off the cold for the city's poor...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes Emergency Aid for Fuel Shortages | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...prepared," Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci told his colleagues. "It's already October, and its getting cold, and do we have a program? If we don't get one, people in this city may freeze," Vellucci said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes Emergency Aid for Fuel Shortages | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...know of families with small children who have been bitten by rats, who live in roach-infested homes, who have been cold long before the fuel crisis. They are in just as much of an emergency," Graham said, before amending the proposal to open up the additional 175 units of public housing for all residents waiting on the public housing rolls...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Votes Emergency Aid for Fuel Shortages | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...like somebody forced kerosene under your skin and every once in a while they set fire to it. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, I felt depressed." This description of going cold turkey was voiced last week not by a typical junkie but by Dr.William Thomas of Long Beach, Calif. Like the priest, banker, teacher and housewife who told similar tales at a Senate health subcommittee hearing, the doctor was not addicted to heroin. He and the others were hooked on so-called minor tranquilizers, particularly Valium, the nation's bestselling prescription drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tranquil Tales | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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