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Word: dreadnought (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, who could say with certitude that Nixon did not look like a Chief Executive and that Kennedy did, or vice versa? Is a President clean-cut? Ulysses S. Grant would have fit right in at an Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Trim? Honest Grover Cleveland's dreadnought corpulence might have served as a model for Thomas Nast's potbellied crooks. Is the presidential face august, humane, agleam with probity? John Adams might have been cast as Scrooge or a consecrated bookkeeper. John Quincy Adams looked incipiently satanic. James Monroe's bug-eyed visage might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking for Mr. President | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...revels are ended. That white dreadnought of a house at 165 Eaton Place is deserted, although two weddings sweeten the sorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goodbye to All That | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Penn, the strong performance last night coming after last weekend's 86-85 win over Columbia--then the Ivy League leader--makes the Quakers look more and more like the super-dreadnought they were supposed to be at the start of the season...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Quakers Dunk Cagers 82-61 In Mismatch At IAB | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

After last night's rankling loss, the Crimson will once again try to bid adieu to disappointment and spleen when it scraps with Ivy League super-dreadnought Princeton tonight at Jadwin Gymnasium...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Quakers Nip Fired Up Crimson, 80-75 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

...year of William Faulkner's death. The coincidence was not lost on litterateurs. Ever since, Price has been the odds-on favorite of those who believe that the U.S. must always have a Southern writer-in-residence whispering of dark doings behind the magnolia. This dreadnought of a family saga (Price's fourth novel) proves that he has earned the title. It is also strong evidence that the post is obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All in the Family | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

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