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Word: hoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They, up at Harvard, were sucking in millions of taxpayers' dollars from Uncle Sam during wartime for University expansion, but they didn't give a hoot about providing their student population with dormitories and/or housing facilities. Only under Vellucci pressure did they finally enbark upon a program to build housing for students and faculty. But that was after they had caused a serious crisis in the Cambridge housing market. That was right after World...

Author: By Alfred E. Vellucci, | Title: Vellucci/Harvard | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...have a feeling the average North American Catholic doesn't give a hoot what the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod thinks of the Pope. He is not their church leader. Let them look to Martin Luther as the Antichrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Menke; 20. Vic Wertz; 21. Ed Charles; 22. Herb Pennock; 23. Ed Stroud; 24. Benny Kauff; 25. Walter Maranville; 26. Bobby Thomson; 27. Orlando Cepeda; 28. Lou Novikoff; 29. Frank Howard; 30. Clint Courtney; 31. Gray Eagle; 32. The Silver Fox; 33. The Peerless Leader; 34. Old Reliable; 35. Hoot; 36. Moonman; 37. Gates; 38. Hondo Hurricane; 39. Spider; 40. Mighty Mite; 41. Dixie and Harry Walker; 42. Carlos and Lee May; 43. Christy and Henry Mathewson; 44. Stupid question--too many to list, all with any correct answers got fullcredit; 45. Tommie Aaron and Cloyd Boyer; 46. Hector, Jose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to 1979 Cube Baseball Quiz | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

...buses, disposable toothbrushes in rest rooms, free phones, simultaneous translation for a group of 25 Japanese, and $300,000 worth of frankly fabulous food catered by Los Angeles Restaurateur Robert J. Morris. The wine flowed like water, and so did the Perrier. "I think it's a goddam hoot," grinned a Texan, as a forklift truck rolled past bearing 1,200 live Maine lobsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...festivity that resulted eventually had a Winter Carnival Queen. The title and the role went out of style in the early '70s. Now the queen is celebrated only in a wonderfully awful 1939 Ann Sheridan movie that plays to packed houses at carnival time so liberated students can hoot at chaste girls "just dying to get pinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: In Hanover: The Big Green Battle of the Sexes | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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