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Word: drawning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After 25 years, you are not what you were," reflected Diva Maria Callas last week. Though critics have been telling the volatile prima donna something like that for years, the Callas star quality still blazes in Japan where she and Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano have drawn sellout audiences and 40-minute curtain calls during their concert tour. Pausing in her $330-a-day Tokyo hotel suite, where the air-conditioning ducts were sealed to protect the famous Callas cords, the star spoke of her on-again, off-again career. "At a certain point in my life I had wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 11, 1974 | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Herold said his board wanted the boundary lines drawn down Hammond St. by the University Panning Office's Interim Report to be redrawn down Museum St., because the projected lines "run down the middle of the residential district...

Author: By Monique L. Burns, | Title: Community Board Proposes Changes In Interim Report | 11/9/1974 | See Source »

Still, no universal moral will be drawn from a young football player's misfortune on an October afternoon. Sports injuries like Waldrep's leave little room for discussion. The only way to eliminate them is to eliminate contact sports altogether, hardly a viable option. Players who love to "hit" wouldn't stand for it, nor would the thousands of armchair quarterbacks who spend their spare weekend hours watching athletes parade up and down synthetic turf. All that can be hoped for in our sports-conscious society is that every possible precaution be taken to prevent serious injury...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Dennis Anyone? | 11/6/1974 | See Source »

...resolution was drawn up in response to a bill sponsored by Sen. J. Glenn Beall (R-Md.) which requires government-aided medical schools to obtain a pledge from at least 25 per cent of its entering class to serve in medically deprived areas after graduation. The bill passed the Senate on September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Dean Backs Plan Tying Grants, National Service | 11/6/1974 | See Source »

...these two components together, and you have any of the myriad situations that the women who are described in this book faced when they were raped. The over-whelming number of women who responded to the questionnaires from which the case histories were drawn said that they either did not know their attacker at all (most of these women were hitchhiking), or that they knew him slightly: he was a friend of a friend, a teacher, an employer or a neighbor. The women who were hitchhiking were where the men who picked them up thought "they did not belong," hence...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: The Way of All Flesh | 11/5/1974 | See Source »

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