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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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PUTTING ON School for Wives is like playing one of those 25-cent games in the amusement park: it looks fun and not terribly difficult, but the odds are against you if you haven't had a lot of practice...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Muddling Moliere | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather, in the polygamous old days, had 45 wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...moderate" may not last much longer. Hurling a rhetorical threat at the oil-consuming countries at a press conference at the end of the OPEC meeting, Yamani said bluntly: "It is up to you now. Saudi Arabia can do nothing more for the West. Americans can do a lot, but unless they act, the world will have another price increase by June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: OPEC's Dangerous Game | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Jeffrey Wolcowitz, instructor in economics, said yesterday, "A lot of the things said in the article related to the period of 1974 to 1975--in past years, the health of the department has improved...

Author: By Natalie S. Bigelow, | Title: 'Business Week' Charges Economics Dept. Declining | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

NEAR THE end of that interminable three-hour talk, the writer recalled a gracious, but condescending professor's wife whom she and her husband had known at a college where she was a visiting lecturer. The woman, upon meeting her husband, a printer, made a point of learning a lot about printing, presumably so that she'd be able to make conversation with him and put him at ease at faculty dinners. "She didn't realize," The writer said softly, "that of course my husband could have talked with her about any number of subjects." I was chilled...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: For No One's Calipers | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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