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Word: exception (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is really nothing Rescue can do about such cases except treat the persons as if something was actually wrong, since they can not take chances. Spike said that there is one guy who knows how to perfectly mimic the symptoms of a heart attack. Between the four groups in the Rescue Co. they end up picking him up every couple of months like a regular customer. What annoys the men is that such people tie up the truck and thus could prevent them from making it to someone who really needs them...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: The Dark Side of Cambridge: A Night With Rescue | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...vibration. Engineers consider such stresses in their designs, but some times they miscalculate. Just such a mistake appeared to be behind the Environmental Protection Agency's order last week that American Motors Corp. recall 270,000 of its 1976 cars- all the autos it made that year except those for California, which have special pollution gear -plus 40,000 of its 1975 and 1976 Jeeps and mail trucks. The fault lay in a $20 pollution control system part, made for AMC by Cleveland's Eaton Corp., that earlier had passed EPA tests. After several months on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AMC's Almost Total Recall | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...them down the toilet. 23] Frank Robinson. 24] Light blue. 25] Jimmy Qualls. 26] 29. 27] 24. 28] 14. 29] 29, 1, 20, 7. 30] 31. 31] 15. 32] 37. 33] 20. 34] 3. 35] 26. 36] Diego Segui and John Montague. 37] "Luis Tiant is coming from everywhere except between his legs." 38] Kansas City. 39] Wayne Cuasey. 40] Ray Milland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reading Period Baseball Quiz | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

...thing quite straight: the Queen is not going to abdicate. What is more, everyone would advise her not to, beginning with the Prince of Wales. This idea of abdication is unheard of in British constitutional history. There's no sovereign except Edward VIII who has abdicated. They've either had their heads cut off or been thrown out-as in the case of James II, who wouldn't give up his Roman Catholic connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting the Right People | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...touched by the plight of the Jews, writes Stefan Kanfer. "what are we to say to a people totally annihilated or scattered, with no testament or psalms to calibrate the deep well of the past, no compensatory county, no telethons, no bond rallies, no touring orchestras...no prophets except the ones in the store windows who tell fortunes for a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: NOTABLE | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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