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Word: hums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grinned to herself. The world is a broken Ripple bottle. Yes, yes, a ripped apart Ripple bottle. Some still glistening fragment attracted her eye and absorbed her. Timeless. Rhythm of timelessness; timeless ocean waves. Her endless drift of unconcerned thinking. A sailing without a goal, or known beginning. A hum started out of her sea-faring self; a song of bright, free ships...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...machine falter. The county joined LBJ's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater. Nether Providence, a township just south of Media, did not join the festivities. Goldwater won big there, as did Nixon in 1960, 1968, and 1972. The machine in Nether Providence clicked, whirred, and continued to hum, smoothly functioning as it is today...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Machine: Rolling Jobs Into Votes | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...female living, because we were such a minority. We dressed for class, for the invasion, because we were a spectacle. Often the entire Freshman Union would clamber to its feet when a woman entered, cheering, pounding silverware, jeering or bellowing. I remember being a one-girl exhibition in a Hum 8 section of 25: the sectionman would spend 40 out of 50 minutes making wisecracks about football, and then he would catch himself mid-sentence and bow like Sir Galahad before me inquiring, "And Madamoiselle, how goes the fashion world, pray?" This was the same attitude that insisted on parietals...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

Nightclubs are coming back. Couples are holding hands under candlelit tables and listening to songs they can hum along with. One good reason is fast-footed Singer-Dancer Joel Grey, 40, veteran of Cabaret, from both the stage version and the movie, for which he is up for an Oscar. Now he is back I in the kind of cabaret he says he likes ; best. Lugging a trunk studded with I stickers from his past Broadway hits I around the stage at the Waldorf, Joel clowns with the audience about his 30 years in show business: "I wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 5, 1973 | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...First Amendment continues, with newspaper reporters the first major casualties, but more on the way if Clay T. Whitehead, Director of the White House Office on Telecommunications Policy, makes good his rhetorical attack on "ideological plugola" in the network news. If Whitehead has his way, the airwaves will soon hum with Richard Nixon Thought...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Mao on the Potomac | 2/27/1973 | See Source »

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