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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky said tuition "will have to go up" to offset increasing expenditures, but added that "our capacity and desire to raise tuition is limited."

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and Burton F. Jablin, S | Title: Rosovsky Says National Economic Ills Will Cause Problems for Faculty Budget | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

Author Graham believes that the Shah's motives in tolerating the corruption, and in guiding the network of investments of the Pahlavi Foundation, were less personal aggrandizement than a desire to retain tight control of the Iranian economy and win the loyalty of subordinates by lavish financial favors. Nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The lipsticks are lined up like little bombs, or phalli, viz, any Xaviera Hollander column in Penthouse. The pop-anthropologists say that the lips are secondary sex organs, turning lightly the fancy of young men to less public parts of the body; setting off the subliminal alarm of desire.

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Seton combines naive hesitancy with repressed desire in her characterization of Reg's sister Annie. Although her mugging and hand-wringing border on slapstick in a garden discussion about the illicit weekend together, Seton's performance overall is humorous and believable.

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Currier's Conquests | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Gauthier's improved performance stems indirectly from his desire to make the Olympic trials in June and directly from his summer training in Alabama with Crimson--turned--Crimson-Tide coach Don Gambril.

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Jack Gauthier: | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

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