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Word: fourth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team is mired in fourth place of the National Basketball Association's Atlantic Division, 11 1/2 games behind frontrunning Philadelphia...

Author: By Harry Litman, | Title: Sanders In, Heinsohn Out As Celtics' Head Coach | 1/4/1978 | See Source »

Businessmen contend that OSHA's most pernicious habit is to sneak up on them unawares without search warrants, a practice that is drawing increasing scrutiny from the courts. Since last January, 18 state and federal court decisions have been handed down against the agency for violating the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search and seizure. A suit is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the agency's authority to make inspections without a warrant. There is plenty of evidence that such tactics simply make enforcement all the harder. Says William Kemp, a furniture manufacturer in Goldsboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rage over Rising Regulation | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Shortly before 3 a.m., the festive decorations caught fire, turning the 120 ft.-long hallway into a tunnel of flames. Aroused by a shrill fire alarm, residents on the lower floors rushed down three stairways to safety. Some students on the fourth floor prudently stayed in their rooms, which were separated from the corridor by fire-resistant doors; they were plucked to safety by fire fighters on ladders. But others panicked, threw open their doors and plunged into the inferno in a desperate sprint for the stairs. Two oeds leaped to their deaths on the frozen ground 40 ft. below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Holiday Eve Disasters | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...First Baptist Church in fading downtown San Antonio. In the past decade, it has grown from 7,000 to 9,000 members, 1,000 of them Chicanos. Allen, currently the honorific president of the Southern Baptists, combines Bible preaching with 20 ministries to meet every imaginable need. At the Fourth Street Inn restaurant, 55 volunteers offer low-pressure "witnessing" to paying customers and use the profits to offer lunch to anyone who is hungry, no questions asked. Upstairs, counselors are ready to chat. There is also a hostel for the homeless and a street ministry that trains young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Chaplin, who like his sister was disinherited-she because of her marriage to Charlie Chaplin, a man more than twice her age, he because of what his father described as the "purposelessness" of his life, which included bouts with alcoholism and two narcotics arrests; in a leap from a fourth-floor window on June 22; in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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