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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Building (ITT) was next on the agenda and equally impressive. I hoped that the committee would meet track mentor Bill McCurdy and imagined how he would jolt them with one of his always refreshing comments. "Hey, I'm Irish, so just keep the green flowing in my direction," he might have said...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

Evans and Aaron J. Alter '79, a Harvard class marshal, said yesterday that once the fund reaches $5000 it receives an official name, which might encourage Harvard to recruit black South Africans actively...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...were mounting after the elections. Vietnam is not so long gone that no one remembers the body-counts of dead Viet-Cong. If those counts were correct, half of Asia's population fought and died for the NLF. This imbalance, this reliance on Salisbury officials to keep Americans informed, might be correct if the Times and other media sent correspondents to Mozambique and Zambia, to cover the war from the guerillas' side. But that's not likely--foreign correspondents cost too much money, and the Times is, after all, the newspaper of record, which is why it will keep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guns And Butter | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice tracts-were long-ago gifts from his grandfather. "The audience," says his collaborator Bob Zmuda, 29, "is asked to become babies again." This is a sort of low-level exercise in primal manipulation that might turn precious, like a Steve Martin extravaganza of silliness. But Kaufman, whether he chooses to acknowledge it or not, is up to something a good deal more ambitious. He is continually questioning, then undermining the idea of what is funny. "Andy takes a lot of risks," Zmuda says. "What performer in his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Laughter from the Toy Chest | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...Even as he falls in love with her, it becomes interestingly possible that he may be the vic tim of her loony side too. Add in those neat acting cameos and Last Embrace is not a total loss. It is just that the movie is not all that it might have been or promised to be. The title implies a certain passionate intensity of approach, but all the film really manages is a diffident hug, a peck on the cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugs and Kisses | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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