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Word: middings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NCAA point is well taken, but one must wonder whether the quota on Canadians would produce the desired effect. Wholesale importation did not begin to affect Eastern hockey, at least, until the mid-60's, when Boston University. Cornell. R.P.I., and New Hampshire followed Clarkson into Canada for their players...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 12/9/1969 | See Source »

...started drifting west in a brand-new Buick Wildcat. He worked his way across the country to New Mexico, taking pictures of real estate for insurance appraisers from time to time. In Albuquerque in mid-1966, a month before his mother's death, he enlisted in the Army. Once in uniform, he was soon recommended for officer candidate school, commissioned a lieutenant and posted to Viet Nam. His elder sister. Mrs. Marian Keesling, of Gainesville, Fla., reports that Calley clothed and fed a little Vietnamese girl; one day he returned to find the child's house bombed and the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...occurrences about to be related were evident on the morning of our arrival at the Bowle. A well dressed alumni wife, spying the Moratorium buttons worn by my date and I, shouting to her fellow pre-noon cocktail party imbibers, "Oh, not another one this week": tow short-haired mid-fortyish couples in the station wagon next to my car, upon seeing my comb my beard. remarking, "Take a look at that creep, will...

Author: By Alfred LAWRENCE Toombs, | Title: YALE'S RUBBER CHICKEN | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...second overtime period began. Harvard once more pressured Van Der Sommen, but seemed impotent. Then with barely 35 seconds left in the period. Gomez got the ball near mid-field and started to bring it in towards the goalie. He saw Charlie Thomas on the side and fed him the ball...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Soccer Team Tops Hartwick, 1-0, Wins Berth in NCAA Semifinals | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

When Madame du Châtelet died, Voltaire, by then in his mid-50s, did not noticeably absent himself from felicity. He was already having an affair with his niece, Marie Louise Denis, who in cited him to write letters praising her "round breasts" and "ravishing bottom." Less enthusiastically, Thomas Carlyle described Marie Louise as a "gadding, flaunting, unreasonable, would-be fashionable female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chaos of Clarity | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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