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Word: feds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life of our own children. Two centuries ago, as with many of us, a child's birth was an occasion of pride. Christening blankets were a traditional gift; often quotations from Scripture were embroidered on them, and they were handed down over the generations. The children were breast-fed-or if their parents were rich and interested in emulating the latest London trend, a wet nurse was hired. The child was wrapped in "flannel sheets," as the homespun blankets or quilts were usually called, and bedded in a cradle; diapers in the modern sense were unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Growing Up in America--Then and Now | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Fine fed Carey for a layup, took a pass from Jonas Honick after a steal for a bucket of his own, and stole Dartmouth's inbound pass. He then returned the favor and passed the ball to Honick, who sent home a jump shot to cut the lead to three...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Big Green Whips Cagers, 86-75; Ivy Opener a Disappointment | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

Summitry has fed on itself. The idea of not having some kind of foreign spectacular at least every now and then makes a President nervous. And each summit must somehow top the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: More Summits? Think Mailgram | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...National Transportation Safety Board investigation may take several weeks, but preliminary findings point to some computer error, perhaps because it was fed wrong information. The Federal Aviation Administration has centers at points along the path of every flight above 18,000 feet within the Golden Triangle-the Chicago, New York, Wash ington area-where computers assign airspace to planes. Somehow, the computer assigned Flight 37 and Flight 182 to the same airspace at the same moment. The error was theoretically impossible, but something like it happened again last week. Two Boeing 727s-a TWA craft with 77 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Riding the Whip | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...Judges too were inclined to go to their best shooter in the stretch. They fed the ball to forward Steve Riley, but he sandwiched two pressure situation misses around a basket by Fine, putting Harvard up by four with less than two minutes to play...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Cagers Outrule Judges for First Win... | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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