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Word: fourteeners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strings that move your limbs. You feel the force of your own movement, but also that you have no control. The sensation is not entirely unpleasant, that feeling of temporary subjugation, also provoked by, say, Kuntsler or Jagger or a woman named Cynthia you knew when you were fourteen, who captivated everyone at your parents' parties and finally killed herself with booze and pills...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Another Clearance of the Evils of Winter | 2/24/1971 | See Source »

...Fourteen years ago, at the age of seven, Larry DiCara memorized the names of all the U.S. Presidents...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...Fourteen out of the fifteen New Haven employees voted to form a union several weeks ago because "management just couldn't be talked to" about theft and heroin traffic in the New Haven restaurant, Cooper said. The management locked up the building after a strike by all non-management employees and a boycott by the surrounding community...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Workers Picket Hungry Charley's | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

Petkevich completely over-shadowed second-place Ken Shelley, and sixteen-year-old Gordie McKellan, who came in third. Petkevich won all seven first place votes in the compulsories on Thursday and thirteen of the fourteen votes cast in "Technical" and "Composition and Style" Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petkevich Takes National Title | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...once happened to voice concerning its filming. When cast in the title role of Kubrick's neither very sinful nor very immoral picture, Miss Lyon was a well-chaperoned young lady, and I suspect that her Broadway successor will be as old as she was at the time. Fourteen is not twelve, 1970 is not 1958, and the sum of $150,000 is not correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1971 | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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