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Word: duds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further warhead has penetrated the screen, but so far proven a dud. Belmont residents unhappy with the University's decision to fill in Blair Pond, a Harvard-owned prospective site for development, last year goaded the legislature to empower the MDC to expropriate the land. But, strangely, when it came time for the needed appropriations to fund the takeover, the money just wasn't there. Harvard still owns the land, and shows signs of staying indefinitely...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Does Harvard Lobby, Or Doesn't It? | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...like a relentless white tornado, working to make them come clean about their products. But the agency's most ambitious undertaking-a program to make thousands of big advertisers produce documentary evidence backing up their claims for product pricing, safety and performance-has so far proved a disappointing dud. Over the past year, the effort has produced a mountain of data but little more than a molehill of definite proof or definitive disproof of product plugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Elusive Truth | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

Boudu Saved from Drowning, A charming comedy from 1935 about a shaggydog man who disrupts the life of intert bourgeoisie is billed with a Renoir bore and Renoir dud. Picnic on the Grass and A Day in the Country, BRATTLE THEATER. Boudu: 6, 9:35 Picnic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

Boudu Saved from Drowning, A charming comedy from 1935 about a shaggy-dog man who disrupts the life of inert bourgeoisie is billed with a Renoir bore and a Renoir dud, Picnic on the Grass and A Day in the Country. BRATTLE THEATER. Boudu: 6, 9:35 Picnic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

...SUGAR! David Merrick's gone and made Some Like It Hot into a musical and boy is it a dud. Now in pre-Broadway tryouts. Sugar has been on the road for over two months, trying to get up enough guts to show its face in New York. But by the looks of things Wednesday night, even if this show took a forty-year detour by way of the Sinai Desert it still wouldn't know where to go next...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Sugar | 3/10/1972 | See Source »

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