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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black hole can draw matter from a nearby star, perhaps two black holes can draw matter from each other, spewing off enough matter and energy into space to create a new galaxy eventually. Perhaps black holes are God's way of recreating the universe a portion at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...policemen's union had threatened to shut the city down in the contract dispute, but no one on the bus had any second thoughts about going in. As we crossed into Tennessee, Janey's best friend Jan told the bus driver, "Sweetheart, we're going into Memphis no matter what. I didn't come all this way for nothing. I may never come back again...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Flowers for Elvis | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers might just as well dance off into the sunset. Something essential gets lost, but somehow it doesn't matter. Unless, as with most musicals, you muse at length...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Night of the Kings | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...kind of show many reviewers will hate, because of its flaws, but audiences will love it, because it's fun. And that's what musicals are all about. Give 'em the old razzle-dazzle and you'll leave 'em in the aisles, screaming for more, no matter what's going on outside the theater, back there in reality...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Night of the Kings | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...show for her four years on the Boston School Committee and there really is some substance behind the fluff. During her first year on the committee she appeared at a Hyde Park anti-busing meeting and stood up to the hooting crowd, telling them that their children, no matter what, were going to receive an integrated education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primaries: A Glance at the Candidates | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

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