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Word: hen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them for 40 years. By opening the door to all-out competition, Kahn has drastically, and probably permanently, changed the U.S. airline industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Happy Hawk in the Hen House | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire collection, says she has no idea how many items there are or what their value might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Treasure Trove | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Murrah was chosen from more than 30 competitors for the honored "Blue Devil" position and he wanted to say hello to Henry Salloway, a sophomore at Harvard, so--"Hello, big Hen...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: The Spirit of St. Louis | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Sure, sure. Sam's was your basic recap, but now Frayud, he went off chasin' the CIA because Sam's side was doing such a fine job of linking the White House and CREEP and the Cubans and all, Frayud wanted to pull a wounded hen...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His Briefcase." | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...hen I was a little girl," recalls Sonia Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Pa risian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem cal culated to endear her to too many other women ? though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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