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Word: doz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cahaly's several iteams are selling faster during reading and exam period: junk food, cigarettes, and anything with caffeine in it. The store has sold out its supply of No-Doz twice in the past week...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

Despite the heavy traffic in No-Doz and coffee, a dealer in headier stay-up drugs claims that the demand for speed seems to have dropped this year. (Although marijuana use is steady: "There will always be people who want a quality high.") According to the dealer, the dropoff in speed consumption is noticeable both at Harvard and Radcliffe. "People want one or two hits to write a paper, but no one's buying in quantity...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

Down the parched readjust outside their house walks a family, a father and mother and perhaps six children. They walk into shadow, and we seem to see doz ens, then hundreds of people, until they fill the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famine | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Football games between Harvard and Boston University are beginning to get a nasty reputation around town these days. As in recent years, fans who witnessed Saturday's matchup needed some No-Doz and a packet of Alka Seltzer to survive the game at Soldier's Field which saw Harvard lose...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Boston University Stuns Crimson, 13-9 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Food processors, wholesalers and retailers, freed from the freeze that remains on most of the economy until Aug. 12, moved swiftly to pass along all increased costs of uncontrolled raw farm goods. In New York and other large cities, eggs rose from about 89? per doz. in supermarkets to 98?, and as high as $1.19 at small groceries. Center-cut pork chops in Chicago climbed 20? per lb., to $1.69; they were $1.89 in Los Angeles. The Hormel Co. fattened the price of a 12-oz. can of pork-based Spam by 16?; it is now selling for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE IV: Prices Leap, Tempers Rise | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

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