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Word: guru (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forth two years ago. In fact, the author, with customary hubris, goes so far as to quote his previous work as an example of a historic consensus: world government can be the only real solution to the nuclear crisis--this consensus, by the way, includes such luminaries as nuke guru. Herman Kahn, Harvard's Living With Nuclear Weapons gang, MIT nuclear specialist George Rathjens. Bertrand Russell, Grenville Clark, and Louis B. Sohn Schell explains parenthetically. "I take the liberty of quoting myself again only because I wish to acknowledge my former adherence to a point of view with which...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Bumper Car Philosophy | 8/10/1984 | See Source »

DIED. James F. Fixx, 52, guru of the fitness generation who wrote two bestselling books explaining the mechanics and extolling the benefits of jogging, The Complete Book of Running (1977) and Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running (1980); of an apparent heart attack while jogging; in Hardwick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 30, 1984 | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

Sheehy added that the Senator had accepted Youngbird's assurance that he had been chosen by supernatural forces to "save nature from destruction." Hart denied that Youngbird was any kind of guru and said the ceremony had been an innocuous dedication of a park. On top of that flap, Hart was quoted in the Denver Post as calling Mondale's interviews in North Oaks "something very close to pandering." His lame comment: "I don't recall the context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aiming for a good show | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Even Cuomo, who has become a party guru with his gospel of gee-whiz goodness, has no record to run on. His year and a half in Albany has been a litany of failure, and his obsession with the 21-year-old minimum drinking age as the family issue is too silly to warrant any serious discussion...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Embarrassment | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

Varsity status brought pool time and a part-time coach, Harvard water polo guru Steve Pike, the first and only coach of the men's team. And the squad's attitude began to change. All the players showed up, five times a week, for practices, and there were always enough on hand to allow for scrimmages...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: A splashing debut | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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