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Word: kent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Modern Mountain Man. "On clear days, Mount Rainier seems to rise in our front yard," boasts Phyllis Shreve, who lives with her husband Jerry and son Terry in a white frame house in the bucolic town of Kent, 16 miles south of Seattle. Jerry Shreve, 40, a native Kansan, came to Seattle at 18 to work for Boeing, where he is now a quality-control inspector. Off the job, his passions are growing roses, fishing (he ties his own flies), hunting elk and deer with a 52-lb. longbow or old-fashioned muzzle-loader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Slices of the Good Life | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...recreation needs new leader w/achieved academic excellence and interest in town-gown harmony. Experience in running state institutions helpful; Predecessor Brage Golding was capable administrator but fought ceaselessly with divided 23-member trustee board (half appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, half by former Governor Ronald Reagan); Golding fled to Kent State, attributing fondness for Ohio to fact that "the state legislature there meets only once every two years." Salary: $41,000 to $55,000. Use of state car and box at football stadium. Apply San Diego State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help Wanted On Other Campuses | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...stopped screaming and cleaned up the spilled sauce. Then she sat down and thought about Kent State. And motherhood. Shit and string beans for this...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Wring Around the Collar | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...Kent Quander '79, one of the two occupants of the suite, said he was upstairs in a friend's room "reading tarot cards" when he heard the fire alarm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quickly-Doused Fire in Adams Damages Property, Not People | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

Perhaps, despite Schwarzenegger's self-assuredness, it was inevitable that the book would be so poor. Schwarzenegger's talents lie exclusively in pumping iron and charming people; his hack ghostwriter, Douglas Kent Hall, has written only on flabby subjects such as Van People and Rodeo. When Schwarzenegger says it will be a bestseller, "just like the bible," his credibility and smile wear a little thin...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: 'I knew I was a winner. I just had it in me.' | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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