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Word: heros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Formal schooling ended for Smith at the tenth grade. Then, through more than 20 years of self-education and training programs, he learned to master topics like atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island?but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: The Pangs of Bearing Witness | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...successful TV series featuring winsome leading women, Three's Company's Suzanne Somers has been one of the leading jiggleos. But now the sensuous half of the feminine two-thirds of Three's Company wants to act seriously. Somers is in London's Wembley Stadium shooting Yesterday's Hero, the story of a veteran British footballer fighting age and alcohol. In the female lead, she is a hip rock singer. The role is certainly more fulfilling than her only previous feature film credit, a wandering blond in American Graffiti whose one line was a wan "I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...battle with the Bulldogs will almost certainly come down to the doubles. It would be fitting if captain Shaw, despite not playing singles, were the hero in his last Yale match. By about 7:00 p.m. tonight the match result should...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Destroy Bruins, 8-1 | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

Weir refuses to solve the mystery. In the end, the rock is the hero-the rock and the thin, adolescent integrity of the girls...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Down Under | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who translates Russian novels for U.S. intelligence, came home to just such a spread, and leaving lunch aside, stepped into a phone booth and became "The Condor." The transformation is not complete--Redford is rather mild-mannered as a hero, too. When he calls into Central, he becomes a critical cog in the intelligence machine, but he spins a little out of synch. Trying to be his own man, Redford holes up in the apartment of a woman he kidnapped in a sporting goods store (didn't your always hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just Because You're Paranoid... | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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