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Word: gone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water in 14 minutes, the bartender escaped the onrushing tide by ducking behind his bar. As he ran for the street, the glass wall behind the bar collapsed. By the time he found his wife at the nearby restaurant where she worked as a waitress, their new car was gone-washed away into the creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rain of Fear In Kansas City | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Parks claims the city has gone without any educational leaders since the era of Horace Mann. The present school committee won election in 1975 with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...have never gone into the districts in a systematic political way and a consumer bill is our ultimate litmus paper test issue." Green stated at the outset of the Nickel Campaign. "At this point we're beyond the merits of the bill, which are considerable but which have not proven enough. We are now working on the politics." Friday night just before the campaign was officially underway, Nader complained to Green when another member of the staff left the office...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Consumers Rain Nickels on Congress | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...conformist who hates to work but does it anyway in order to retain custody of the nephew he loves. North House might be producing Clay, an original play by a Harvard tutor that takes place in Memphis days before the assassination of Martin Luther King. Signs have just gone up to audition for a play called Errors that promises to reveal what goes on behind closed doors. And one of the plays being produced at the Ex is The Comedy of Errors which, I guess, speaks for itself

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Mistakes to Enjoy | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...last match that could have gone either way pitted Mike Brannan against Britain's Ian Hutcheon. Hutcheon was a commanding two up after 16 holes but on the 17th he left his tee shot out to the right and caught the bunker that had cost Siderowf so dearly minutes earlier. Three times Hutcheon rained blows down upon the sand and three times the ball failed to budge. He now stood...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Walker Cup Returns to Shinnecock | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

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