Word: counts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...facts "very exciting." Some of the most interesting challenges are the handful of queries that cannot be answered quickly. Lateiner spent half a day in 1961 discovering that the line "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," quoted by President Kennedy, comes from the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's Foreign Minister. Only in 1968 did Bartlett's Familiar Quotations get around to listing...
Pity. Because when, or if, the New York and Washington press succeeds in knocking out Nixon, the country is going to need an even tougher President, for America's economy and world prestige are bound to take the count along with...
...Pittman, which used a fictional character to dramatize a huge chunk of black history, has been the season's critical success. A Case of Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished by the legal system. Finally, with The Execution of Private Slovik, NBC managed to flack its way into the mightiest flop of the year. Mistaking sober intentions for genuine achievement, the network promoted the film heavily. It turned out to be a long, soggy script about...
Jerry Jeff Walker. Ol' Jerry Jeff's routine of just being, heck, just ol' Jerry Jeff can be a mite wearing at times, but his songs grow on you. "Mr. Bojangles" is Walker's classic, but even on less distinguished tunes, you can count on some clever lines, a catchy melody and some good guitar playing. He is performing with B.W. Stevenson, whose "My Maria" was one of those forgettable songs you found yourself singing during economics lectures or unconsciously harmonizing with every time it hit your car radio. Through Saturday, March 30 at the Performance Center...
...biggest problem this year," Harvard pitching coach Bob Lincoln said, "is to find a number one stopper and a number four starter. We've got to find that one man we can count on to go out on any given day and win for us. And we have to find a fourth man in our starting rotation...