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Word: erects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reisman: The only way to get rid of the barriers is to repeal those acts of legislation which erect the barriers. In order for these barriers to be lifted, it has to be first understood that its necessary to lift them. That's the thing to accomplish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cure for Racism | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...Erect their villas at the right places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Auden: The Sage of Anxiety | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...they have anything left to show. (The ideal mouse, according to Mouse Club guidelines, must be "long and slim in body, with a long, clean head, neither square nor too pointed at the nose. The eyes should be large, bold and prominent; the ears large, free from creases, carried erect and set wide apart.") The strategy-quiet diplomacy, rather than noisy, ratlike demonstrations-paid off. The health department at least agreed to investigate the club's case against a proposed law that would call for a maximum fine of $705 against anyone harboring a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Mice That Roared | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Said the elated Bean: "That's what we've been hoping you would say." In fact, the astronauts got ready to take their repeatedly postponed space walk early this week. That will enable them to erect a second sunshade over the area stripped bare when a micrometeorite shield ripped off during Skylab's launch in May. The astronauts will also take the opportunity to reload their solar-telescope array with fresh film. Underscoring the renewed optimism at Houston that Skylab would survive this latest crisis, Kraft made arrangements to bring Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skylab's New Crisis: A Rescue Mission? | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Rosa Parks, L.H.D., the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and who now works for a Michigan Congressman. Truly, when you sat down in a Montgomery, Ala., bus, all men and women were freed to stand more humanly erect. Harrison E. Salisbury, Litt.D., New York Times editor and correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 3 | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

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