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Word: ledger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved fellow "crazies" in a bulky ledger. Mix the two together and what do you get? Creme de la Outrageous!, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creme de la 'Outrageous' | 9/14/1977 | See Source »

Personal overdrafts Probably more harmful to Lance's image as a tightfisted budget director bent on balancing the national ledger was the report's confirmation that his Calhoun bank winked at massive overdrafts by the bank's officers and their relatives. According to the report, Lance's wife LaBelle overdrew her account by as much as $110,000 in the last four months of 1974. Between September 1974 and April 1975, nine Lance relatives amassed overdrafts totaling an impressive $450,000. In December 1975, federal bank examiners insisted that the overdrafts be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Bert, I'm Proud of You | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...former Governor Tom McCall, one of the first to call for Nixon's resignation, said he now feels that Nixon is "a warm human being. If he'd just come out like this early, it probably wouldn't have been half as bad." Agreed the Norfolk Ledger-Star in an editorial: "It was good that he said it, but it would have sounded better if he had said it sooner. And for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Nixon: Once More, with Feeling | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...Walker, it was a fitting victory because of the Brinks job done on him in the singles side of the ledger...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Fish's Boys Take Second | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...remaining matches resembled the first in ferocity but the Crimson found itself on the losing side of the ledger. The match was nailed shut when seventh-seeded Marina Castaneda of Radcliffe lost, 3-2, to Williams' Barb Ernst...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Williams Upsets Racquetwomen, 5-2 | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

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