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Word: lincoln (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rand, becoming a captain was the direct result of having switched from alpine racing to the nordic events during his freshman year. He raced slalom, giant slalom and some cross-country through his high school years at Lincoln-Sudbury and a post-graduate year at Northfield Mount Hermon...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Captain, Captain | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

This guy has been mailing his film columns in from Lincoln for a long time, and nobody had ever met him or even laid eyes on him. He was horribly disfigured many years ago, when a projector blew up in his face, but even that little incident didn't diminish his love for "la cine," as we say in France...

Author: By Joseph Dalton and David B. Edelstein, S | Title: Phantom of the Cinema | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...that our car had been stolen. But then we realized that it probably had only been towed--although it was 9:05 on a Sunday morning--and we walked up the road to Ranger Bill. Ranger Bill said. "Uh. well look--your car was probably towed by the Lincoln police," and we said. "Uh, well look--where would they have towed it to, perchance?," and he said. "Uh, well they probably, uh, towed it out to the Shell station out there on Route?" and we said. "Uh, well how far is that?," and he said. "Well, it's about...

Author: By Joseph Dalton and David B. Edelstein, S | Title: Phantom of the Cinema | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...socialite philanthropist (Dina Merrill). Ossie Davis and Brock Pe ters turn up as, respectively, a Pull man porter and a sharecropper, who risk their jobs to fight for economic equality. In his first TV performance, Marlon Brando appears in the final episode as American Nazi Party Leader George Lincoln Rockwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Super Sequel to Haley's Comet | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

License-plate slogans tend to be innocuous boasts of a state's famous product: corn, copper, sunshine, lakes, Lincoln, enchantment. From 1969 on, New Hampshire car owners had a more forceful phrase, LIVE FREE OR DIE, and it drove some of them to distraction. Motorist George Maynard, feeling the slogan confined him to the right lane, went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1977 with his refusal to pay a $75 fine for blotting out the offending words on his plates. The court ruled in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Live Free or Don't | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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