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Word: meteor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pope John Paul "passed as a meteor which unexpectedly lights up the heavens and then disappears, leaving us amazed and astonished," Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, dean of the College of Cardinals said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dignitaries Gather At Funeral Service Of Pope John Paul | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

...nuclear meltdown is about as likely as being hit by a meteor on the Senate floor," he told me, "but if something like that happened, there is the possibility that we could remove the radiation from the atmosphere...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...catching costumes. A swim through a million pounds of warm mud in a collapsing New York City subway. Those are some of the drawbacks to playing the Soviet astrophysicist heroine of Meteor, a $16 million disaster film. For Natalie Wood, who slipped into a comfy pants outfit and posed for a picture session off the Hollywood set, the good news is that she was forced to improve her Russian for the role. Nee Natasha Za-charenko, the daughter of Russian immigrants to San Francisco, she used to speak her mother's tongue "with the sophistication of a ten-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...blues early on with two goals within the first three and a half minutes of play. Terry Flanagan poloed in a puck bouncing in front of the cage at 2:02, then Bruce Crowder came through on the power play at 3:13 with a 40-foot meteor that screened Harvard netminder John Hynes never...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yardlings Tally Five Times, Icemen Prevail, 7-6 | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

Goldsmith rather enjoys some of the criticism leveled against him; for example, that he is a "meteor" who does not play by the rules of the financial community. "If it's too easy to be a meteor, there wouldn't be any natural selection," he says. "Obstacles have to be constantly put there. If I got to the top I'd have every intention of putting the obstacles there for the fellows behind." As for his dual households, he says: "Nobody can accuse me of humbug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Jimmy's Cross-Channel Fiefdom | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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