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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legion of moviegoers (and a lot of us are not culturally disfranchised) who like Clint Eastwood movies [Jan. 9]. Why? Because after a tough day of lecturing and sitting through a department meeting on course changes for the 83rd time, I find it fun to watch, in Gauntlet, a bus get the hell shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1978 | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

While his integrity is unquestioned, the test for Webster will be how well he can-with limited administrative experience-run an agency with 19,000 employees, a $500 million annual budget and a lot of problems. Dominated by cliques and thoroughly demoralized, the FBI has suffered one severe blow after another to its public image since the death of J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Again, the FBI Gets Its Man | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...knew I was allowed to flunk one course a year," he said. "So I picked my one course and flunked it while I was writing my books. Finally I realized I enjoyed writing a lot more than I enjoyed medical school," he said...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: Crichton Speaks at Law Forum Preview of 'Coma' | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

Although he has done some ice dancing with a partner, Estey said he prefers to skate alone. "There's too much aggravation in pair skating. There's usually a lot of fighting between the two skaters," he said...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Freshmen Estey Skates His Way To The National Championship | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

...time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time and of history, down down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself, down in the Prince Emmanuel's land. Dreamland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Way Down In the Prince Emmanuel's Land | 1/27/1978 | See Source »

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