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Word: deere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret that Ali has not trained hard in the last six weeks. The champ sparred little and frequently strayed from his Deer Lake, Pa., training camp. Instead of road work, Ali walked the streets of New York City in support of mayoral candidate Mario Cuomo...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Shavers Plans to Trim Ali | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

...warehouse worker who becomes one of the country's most powerful labor leaders. Dubuque has the ambience of an industrial town of the 1930s. Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Heartland, with Cameras | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...probably related to their next-door-neighbor. Resentments have erupted in the past to the extent that the former tribal council president wrote a bitter and a somewhat hysterical letter to the Vineyard Gazette, the leading newspaper of Martha's Vineyard, accusing the present tribal leaders of placing a deer head with a knife in its throat in her mailbox. The leaders' response in the newspaper ignored the accusations but leaders subsequently hinted that the former president put the deer head in the mailbox herself...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Whose Vineyard? | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Chinese tale tells about a tyrannical prime minister of the 3rd century B.C. who assembled his courtier to test their loyalty. He had a deer brough before them and proclaimed it a horse. Those who imprudently disagreed paid the price of calling a horse a horse with their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greater Walls | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

This classic exchange may not be the last word on human aggression, but sociobiologists would admire the insight into male psychology. In their view, male displays and bravado-from antlers in deer and feather ruffling in birds to chest thumping in apes and humans-evolved as a reproductive strategy to impress females. Machismo is biologically based and says in effect: "I have good genes, let me mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sociobiology and Sex | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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