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Word: dollar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dupe, that's what I am, thought Shapiro in despair. A dope. Therere was a hundred dollar bill on the plate also, which to his credit Shapiro did not pick up. It wasn't even my line, he told himself, Herman J. Mankiewicz said it. He32Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Any last words, buddy? | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...rules grew out of the fear of Cambridge theaters that they would lose a substantial share of their paying customers to Harvard's dollar viewings. Forbidding film societies to show recent releases reserves first-run movies for local theaters, while the 90-day rule prevents customers from attending an earlier film society showing or waiting for the film to appear in a House. Lists of protected films are more exclusive: theaters can reserve about 15 of their own favorites...

Author: By Sarah A. Stahl, | Title: Gone With The Wind | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Elsewhere, Gene Autry, the Angels' owner who thought he bought himself a pennant, now realizes that all he did was lasso himself another mediocre club. Million-dollar free agent Don Baylor is particularly useful to the team: his .207 batting average wouldn't let him play in the Pacific Coast League...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

...future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even in the '20s, he represented a kind of nostalgia. In an era of Teapot Dome and bathtub gin, he seemed to Americans a cleaner, sharper version of themselves, as bright as a new silver dollar, still inventive and vigorous. If, as Historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, the U.S. ran out of frontier in 1890, Lindbergh opened a new frontier in the air - the U.S. arcing back in triumph to its European origins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Lindbergh: The Heroic Curiosity | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...University of Chicago and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Switzerland; after a long illness; in Geneva. An expert on international finance, Johnson frequently attacked the monetarist school of economists. He believed unemployment was a greater social problem than inflation and at times espoused both devaluation of the dollar and a guaranteed minimum income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1977 | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

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