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Word: doublesized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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So he was. Wearing a blue shirt and chinos for an outing with 18 young friends of Tricia, David and Julie at Camp David, where there was no pomp amid rustic circumstance, Charles expertly potted three doubles in a row at skeet. "He's great," said the admiring David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Charles & Anne & David & Julie & Tricia | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

Everything about Alaska is extreme. It is physically as big as Texas, California and Montana combined?586,000 sq. mi. Just one of Alaska's scores of blue-green glaciers is the size of Holland; one wildlife preserve could hold Hungary. Alaska's 33,000-mile coastline doubles that of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Great Land: Boom or Doom | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

As the lights go down, the audience at London's Cambridge Theater looks up expecting to see the familiar opening scene of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler -Hedda's new husband nattering away with his auntie. Instead, in a startling departure from the script, Maggie Smith as Hedda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gabler by Bergman | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

The worst hazard is the acronym's tendency to create doubles. As soon as an acronym becomes common, it breeds a litter of identical children. When a man says that he works for AID, is he part of the Agency for International Development or Americans of Italian Descent? Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Agonies of Acronymania | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

Repeated efforts have been made to present the evidence in this and other cases for anyone who wishes to examine it, but apparently time for inquiry is short, and this being so, the accusations go on, the chants continue, and doubles conceivably grow. Sadly, a suspicion of this kind once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey on 'The Big Lie' | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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