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Word: michigan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look at some palm trees is that of Namo and I waking up on the beach in our shorts, two pale WASPish figures lying next to a herd of tanned and blonded young Aryan demigods frolicking in the sun. When I looked around me I noticed a girl from Michigan State, coated with coconut oil, lying next to us and leering at me without speaking. I put my heard back in the sand and slept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manifest Destiny: | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Elizabeth Douvan, program director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, said that in the past marriage has constricted women's growth as individuals and that single women now regard marriage much more skeptically than before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Forum | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

Even most Senators who opposed the treaties had little hope of staging a comeback. Said Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, a leader of the antitreaty forces: "I don't know where the votes would come from. A Senator can't afford to flip after his first vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Half time Confidence on Panama | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Ever since flamboyant Congressman Adam Clayton Powell lost his House seat in 1970, roly-poly Charles Coles Diggs Jr.. 55, has been the senior black member of Congress. The son of a powerful Michigan politician who became wealthy as an undertaker in Detroit, Diggs has won election to the House twelve times from the city's predominantly poor and black 13th Congressional District. Because of his seniority, he became the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. He is also chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee and the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diggs in Trouble | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Four Crimson aquamen gained All-American recognition in leading the squad to its highest finish in a national meet since 1963. Harvard finished ahead of such powers as Michigan, Stanford and archrival Princeton (which did not score a point) in the three-day extravaganza which was won by Tennessee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Swim Team 15th at NCAAs | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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