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Word: finalizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third and final stage of a rumor's life, the information is tailored to suit the vendor's interests and emotional needs. Those who believe that McCartney is dead, for instance, are in part sublimating their fear of the grave. For whenever death visits another person, it must delay its appointment in Samarra with you. Frequently, the death of a public figure breeds a host of rumors about the supposed deaths of other public figures. Within hours after Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, rumors falsely consigned General George Marshall, Bing Crosby and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Rumor, Myth and a Beatle | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

With 4:31 gone in the final session, Bruno Vogt fired a spectacular centering pass in front of the Tiger net and smashed the ball home before it even touched the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Come From Behind to Defeat Princeton And Remain Tied With Unbeaten Crimson Booters | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

JOHNSTON CITY, Illinois-The world's All-Around Pocket Billiards Championship is in its final days. Pool sharks from all parts of the country annually congregate in Johnston City (pop. 3900), a rural city in southern Illinois, during October to contest the $20,000 prize money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustlers Come to Johnson City | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

Neither team could control play in the first half. but Harvard took command after intermission. Andover and Harvard both collecied first-quarter goals. then battled to a stalemate until the final stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Soccer Team Topples Andover, 4-1 | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

However, James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, pointed out that all the Councils decisions would be subject to final scrutiny by the full Faculty. He said that all arguments for exact proportional representation would be more important if the Council were to become some kind of Faculty Senate, with full legislative power...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Special Faculty Meeting Discusses Reorganization | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

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