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Word: mering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers of Princeton nosed out the Crimson, 72-70. Host Yale mustered a mere 17 points to nail down third...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Princeton Edges Thinclads To Take Big Three Meet | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

Sheriff Alvin Hudson agrees with Marfleet that the baptistry is a good idea and points out that "it's not a fancy one." There is no carved marble, just stainless steel, but the baptistry is large enough to accommodate total-immersion christenings, and it cost the taxpayers a mere $1,200. Says Hudson: "Nobody has complained. Some think it's funny, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Seeing the Light | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...begun to fund "alternative energy systems," it can only be concluded that they are mere token efforts. They do not make TVA's overall record any less troubling. In this case, "Power to the People" is being generated at too high a price. Winona La Duke Westigard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TVA: Same Old Menace? | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...past decade include Best & Co., Arnold Constable and Peck & Peck. Now one of the street's very biggest names will disappear: Bonwit Teller. For most of its 80-year history, Bonwit's specialized in dressing well-heeled women in genteel elegance. But the store moved from mere affluence to a position of real fashion influence in the 1960s, when its sharp-tongued president, Mildred Custin, decided that Bonwit's should take the lead in promoting the designs of such emerging ready-to-wear pacesetters as Calvin Klein and France's Andre Courreges and Pierre Cardin. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clearance Sale | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...mere mention of his name, Terrance Johnson, is enough to ignite an already explosive situation. You see, Johnson is black, the two slain policemen were white, and any Maryland resident will tell you that the most notorious features of P.G. County are its ultra-tense race relations and its controversial police force...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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