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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They also learned a lot about tongue-twisters. Ready? Say National Invitational Intercollegiate five times fast. National Invitational Intercollegiate, National Invitational Intercollegiate, National Invitational Intercollegiate...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Three Ways to Spend Xmas Vacation: | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

...Everyone's taken a lot of exams before they get here," Berman said smiling. "Most anxiety is self-induced. Eighty percent of the class expects to be in the top 50 per cent...

Author: By Warren W. Ludwig, | Title: Examinations Begin at the Law School; First-Year Students Study and Sweat | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

White "obviously did a lot of heavy trading," Representative Frank, an executive assistant to White in the late '60s, has noted, and the city council approved the mayor's proposals with minor changes in a rush session between Christmas and January 1, when the move would receive the least attention from the voters. Now the alterations will be sent to the State House to get the legislature's and governor's approval...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

...learned a lot," Havens concluded, "in terms of how we should practice in order to beat Princeton and Penn in the dual matches...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Three Ways to Spend Xmas Vacation: | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

...freezing night last week, a burly figure stealthily flipped a fat manila envelope, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: An Offer the Soviets Refused | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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