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Word: compacter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staggering $79 million loss for the third quarter. John Riccardo, Chrysler's chairman, predicts that the company will run in the black in the fourth quarter, paced by sales of its Cordoba, a mid-size Chrysler introduced last year, and its new Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen compact models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Detroit Revs Up Its Sales Engine | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Teevens, who clicked on eight of ten passes for 150 yards, boosted the Dartmouth edge to 14-0 midway through the first quarter. The compact chucker hooked up with split end Scott Brewster for a 15-yd. touchdown toss. Steve St. Clair then added the second of three extrapoints he was to garner during the afternoon...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Green Downs Jayvees, 28-13; Harvard Frosh Falter, 21-7 | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

...some time the partners in this compact shrugged off accountability to their respective communities--perhaps with the simplistic kind of rationale offered by a source in Holyoke Center: "If this were the government of South Vietnam, let's say, we might have something to be ashamed about...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Chair Under Wraps | 9/17/1975 | See Source »

Before leaving for work, Doug takes a brief stroll down the narrow path to the bottom of his garden. Barrel-chested and brisk-gaited, as befits a onetime gymnast, he is a compact man who gives his height as "5 ft., buggerall" but is more like 5 ft. 5 in. He pauses to check his tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, potatoes and onions. "These are my pride and joy," he says. "I look after them like my union members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN/SPECIAL REPORT: UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS AT THE FACTORY | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...drank. But if pills, liquor and drugs vanquished inhibitions, they also led to paranoia. "If I smoked a joint and went into a restaurant where people were laughing," she explains, "you could not convince me that they were not laughing at me. The lady in the corner holding the compact was looking at me over her shoulder." A year ago, her throat raw from marijuana, she decided to stop using all drugs. Now she avoids even aspirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: End of Night | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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