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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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In your phonetic rendering of woof ticket, the pronunciation is correct, but rather than being a "wolf ticket (meaning a challenge to fight), it is a "woof ticket (meaning a bluff). One often hears the term woofin' to mean that someone is in a sense barking, not yet committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1979 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

This plot is loose and baggy enough to give Vonnegut plenty of leg room, and he strolls about at will. He offers a lengthy account, for instance, of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and of their subsequent executions in the 1920s. Not all of the digressions are somber. Starbuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money Matters | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

He hears the din in Khartoum where the Blue and the White Niles meet and in a southern Sudan sapped to a "hopeless torpor" by epidemic. The specific character and hardship of a place are conveyed with arresting brevity. On the hard desert of the Muslim north: "It depressed me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pink Spider | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

It makes for speed. Trials without jury are brief; the more defendants who opt for them-and most do-the faster the Philadelphia courts can dispose of their huge case loads. Judge White likes to "move the business" right along; he hears three or four cases a day, disposes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Moving the Business in Philly | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

CHUL also hears several general reports concerning undergraduates such as reports on the budget and on flu epidemics. The meetings are generally amicable except when an issue pits the students against the faculty--then the meetings can become tense.

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Alphabet Soup for Junior Politicians | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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