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Word: coverings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boxers. "O.K., folks. We've got six fighters signed up. If you've got any friends, give them a call and get them down here." Seated just inside the door, a young woman asks all comers, "Are you going to box?" Spectators have to pay a $2 cover charge. Fighters who go three rounds get in free. And that rule about no T shirts or bare feet is waived for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Pleasure and Pain from Disco Punches | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Rhodes' tax-saving administrative abilities and show that he is capable of, among other things, leading the All-Ohio Youth Marching Band. And in Michigan, they have taken on the task of electing an entire Republican legislature; one spot shows a herd of zebras and ostriches racing for cover while the narrator accuses Democrats of running from the tax issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Media Mesmerists | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...near the shoulder of a small dirt road, the objective only 100 meters away. From another platoon, gunfire breaks out. "Those idiots!" Duden grumbles. "This is a surprise attack, and now the aggressors know where we are." A fire team moves to a ridge, setting up machine guns to cover the platoon as it crosses the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: She Goes on Maneuvers | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...clever Smith scored some points too. The talks are to be "without preconditions," a reference to aspects of the Anglo-American plan for settling the Rhodesian crisis, which the Prime Minister had refused to accept. The objectives agreed on last week cover essentially the same areas as the Anglo-American plan but Washington may have difficulty convincing the Patriotic Front of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Pinning an Elusive Prime Minister | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Once admitted to a club, a student must usually pay a $100 initiation fee and, on the average, a $300 fee for annual dues. The dues cover a limited number of free meals and drinks, and they do not begin to cover a club's yearly overhead. Property taxes on some of the clubs take as much as $30,000 every year...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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