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Word: glenn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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While a recorded chicken loudly clucks to the strains of Glenn Miller's In the Mood on the public address system, the crowd watches the weigh-in conducted by Jake Blazer, 43. Each chicken is expertly thrust headfirst into a metal funnel under a scale hanging from a tripod. Only once is Blazer pecked, by an irritable banty named Mindy (Mork, next up, is more docile). A leghorn named White Flyer escapes in the transfer from box to scale and flies into heavy brush a hundred feet away. The fishnet squad is dispatched. Frets Owner Andy Cline of McArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...captain Glenn Fine, a Rhodes scholar and playmaker extrordinaire, combined with senior co-captain Bob Hooft and freshman star Don Fleming to provide flashes of brilliance. But Princeton and Penn came and conquered, the season drew to a creeping close, and the Great Leap Forward into big-time basketball did not develop...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Henrietta Attles, Sara Mae Berman, Glenn Koocher and Alice Wolf won the convention's endorsement for school committee...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: CCA Backs Liberal Slate In Election | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...although top Amway salespeople can earn more than $100,000 a year, the majority, who may be housewives, retirees or even doctors or lawyers, probably make $50 to $150 a month. Though the result is a many-layered sales organization, it differs significantly from unscrupulous pyramid sales schemes like Glenn ("Dare to Be Great") Turner's Florida-based cosmetics operation, in which participants earned money by signing up new distributors rather than by selling the company's products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Amway's Way | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...telemetry from an SS-18 test, including the telemetry about the performance of the warhead?data that are helpful to the U.S. in determining throw weight or payload. The incident assumed political importance, for it went to the heart of the American obsession with verification. Ohio Senator John Glenn, the former astronaut, had already staked out this as "his" issue, on which his vote for or against ratification would largely depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Who Conceded What to Whom | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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