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Word: fourth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event. "I had a ball," says Charlie's fourth Angel. "But I took five showers and still couldn't get the stuff completely out of my ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...architects of the evening's comic chaos are a fourth couple, Trevor (Stephen Moore) and Susannah (Delia Lindsay), a pair of neurotic, egocentric twits who have the instincts of termites when it comes to reducing their friends' relationships to rubble. Trevor yearns to "communicate" though he cannot finish a simple declarative sentence, and Susannah gives herself pep talks on self-confidence with the assurance of a snowball crossing the equator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Manic High | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...court disagreed. Writing for the majority. Justice Byron White called the safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Highway Privacy | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...played. At the end of the second act, one of the actors pulls a coin from his pocket and flips it on stage. Heads means the third will be played one way; tails means it will be played the other. Both scenes end in such a way that the fourth and final act stays the same. "People come to the theater to be entertained," he says, "and you always begin by saying, 'Once upon a time . . .' Then you start the maze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Manic High | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Crimson co-captain and player-coach Roger Martin was jubilant after the match. "The fourth game was an embarrassment. We had to win the last one for the fans," he said afterward...

Author: By Panos P. Constantanides, | Title: Spikers Shine, Defeat Huskies In Tight Match | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

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